N. Christian Smoot

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND:

Employed by the Ocean Survey Program of the US Naval Oceanographic Office 1966-1975, 1977-1998- career consisted of 20 years of deep-ocean data collection (took 67 cruises and logged over 600,000 nautical miles at sea) in bathymetry, gravity, magnetics, and physical oceanography; progressing through state of the art technology of data collection from hand surveying and processing methods to full computer suite including transponders, inertial navigation, Transit and GPS satellite navigation, LORAN-C and Omega; single-beam sonar; SASS, Seabeam, and Simrad multibeam sonars; SeaMARC II side-scan sonar; sound velocity studies using Nansen casts, salinometers, Niskin samplers, and expendable bathythermo-graphs; found missing submarine, USS SCORPION, in June 1968; was senior scientist from 1981 until 1988–30 years of office work consisted of data compilation of thousands of point charts and a couple of hundred regional charts over the years, training others including updating the training manual four times, many special projects, and publishing results; 34 feature names accepted by US Board on Geographic Names; retired April 1998 with 18 work-related awards

 

Cruises:

1.  20 Jun-11 Nov 66  USNS BOWDITCH- grunt- NELant, GibStraits, and WestMed,       Lisbon, Rota, Lisbon, Belfast, Belfast, Belfast, Barcelona

2.  11 Jan-10 Mar 67  USNS MICHELSON- grunt- NWPac (Marianas region, Challenger Deep), Yokosuka, Yokosuka, Yokosuka

3.  22 Jun 67-19 Oct 67  USNS BOWDITCH- grunt-  NELant and WestMed (Sargasso Sea, Straits of Sicily and Gibraltar, Skerki and Pantellaria Banks), Belfast, Lisbon, Swansea, Rota, Valetta

4.  15 Nov 67-13 Mar 68 USNS BOWDITCH- grunt- WestMed and NELant (Tagus Plain, GibStraits), Valetta, Naples, Barcelona, Barcelona, Lisbon

5.  26 May-12 Aug 68  USNS BOWDITCH- grunt- NELant (found USS SCORPION, ran transponder OPS for the USNS MIZAR, and surveyed the area), Bremerhaven, Amsterdam, Plymouth

6.  21 Jan-25 May 69  USNS BOWDITCH- grunt- NELant (Bay of  Biscay, Atlantic Voyageur, GibStraits), Bayonne, Lisbon, Lisbon, Belfast, Rota

7.  15 Jun-25 Aug 69  USNS BOWDITCH- grunt- WestMed and NELant (GibStraits), Livorno, Livorno, Rota, Glasgow

8.  26 Dec 69-26 Jan 70  USNS DUTTON- grunt- NELant (Faeroes, G/I/UK Gap, Atlantic Voyageur), Edinburgh, Hoboken

9.  25 May-31 Jul 70  USNS DUTTON- grunt- Arctic (Eastern Iceland through Jan Mayan Ridge, Bluenose), Trondheim, Amsterdam, Belfast, Chatham

10.  1 Feb-15 Apr 71  USNS DUTTON- grunt- NELant (Maury Seachannel, Charlie-Gibbs Fracture Zone, Rockall Plateau),  Newcastle, Newcastle, Newcastle, Newcastle, Southampton

11.  20 Mar-12 May 72  USNS DUTTON- grunt- NLant (Atlantic Voyageur; GibStraits), Norfolk, Rota, Rota

12.  10 Dec 72-18 Jan 73  USNS DUTTON- grunt- WestMed, Barcelona, Barcelona, Barcelona

13.  17 Jan-30 Mar 75  USNS DUTTON- grunt- NLant (found TITANIC for Bob Ballard, Azores Platform, Atlantic Voyageur), Brooklyn, Baltimore, Norfolk, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Ponta Delgada

14.  25 Oct-23 Dec 77  USNS DUTTON- grunt- NEPac (Gulf of Alaska), Seattle, Seattle, Seattle

15.  5 Jul-8 Sep 78  USNS DUTTON- Hydroplot Supervisor- NEPac (Gulf of Alaska, exploratory- Golden Dragon), Seattle, Seattle, Honolulu

16.  27 Jul-6 Oct 79  USNS DUTTON- Hydroplot Supervisor- NPac (Emperor Seamounts- Golden Dragon), Yokosuka, Honolulu, Honolulu


17.  31 Dec 80-22 Jan 81  USNS DUTTON- Hydroplot Supervisor- NEPac (Gulf of Alaska), Port Hueneme, San Francisco

18.  10-29 May 82  USNS KANE- visiting scientist- Gulf of Mexico (Yucatan Straits), Gulfport, Port Everglades

19.  25 Jun-2 Sep 82  USNS DUTTON- Senior Scientist- NPac (Surveyor, Mendocino, and Murray Fracture Zones and Musicians Seamounts), Honolulu, Honolulu, Honolulu

20.  26 Sep-1 Dec 83  USNS DUTTON- Senior Scientist- NWPac (Emperor Seamounts, Western extensions of Surveyor and Mendocino Fracture Zones- Golden Dragon), Honolulu, Yokosuka, Guam

21.  11 May-2 Jun 84  R/V KANA KEOKI- visiting scientist- NWPac (Mariana Trough and Bonin Ridge), Guam, Chichijima

22.  23 Nov-24 Dec 85  USNS HESS- Senior Scientist- Lant (Romanche Fracture Zone and Mid-Atlantic Ridge- Shellback), Curacao, Curacao

23.  25 May-31 Jul 87  USNS HESS- Senior Scientist- NEPac (Murray Fracture Zone, Fieberling and Erben Seamounts), San Diego, San Diego, Portland

24.  12 Jun-18 Aug 88  USNS HESS- Senior Scientist- SLant (Romanche, Charcot, and Ascension Fracture Zones, Mid-Atlantic Ridge, and exploratory lines- Shellback), Curacao, Roosevelt Roads, Rio de Janiero, Rio de Janiero

25.  29-30 Mar 96  USS WEST VIRGINIA- Tiger cruise- NWLant- King's Bay

26.  25 Aug-24 Oct 97  USNS SUMNER- grunt- WPac (SChinaSea, Straits of Johor and Luzon), Singapore, Singapore, Yokohama

 

Fun-in-the-Sun Things: worked on the JOIDES/USSAC Seamount Working Group for the Ocean Drilling Program; reviewed many NSF and ONR proposals during the 1980s and 1990s; was selected to get classified SASS bathymetry published in the 1970s, my part initially being guyots; moved into subduction zones and fracture zones by the mid-1980s; discovered orthogonally intersecting fracture zones in 1990, lack of deep earthquakes at subduction zones in 1991; adopted surge tectonic hypothesis for all writing in 1994; kept publishing after retirement, including the two books on ocean floor geomorphology; other papers published on anthropology

 

Honors:      Who’s Who in Science and Engineering, 4th Edition (Marquis; 1998)

                   Who’s Who in Science and Engineering, 5th Edition (Marquis; 2000)

                   Outstanding People of the Twentieth Century (International Biographical

                   Centre; 2000)

 

PAPERS:

 

1. Smoot, N.C., 1980.  Interpretation of Deep Sea Sounding Data, Technical Papers of the American Congress of Surveying and Mapping, Fall Tech. Meeting, pp. MS‑2‑D‑1‑10.

2. Smoot, N.C., 1981.  Multi‑beam sonar surveys of guyots of the Gulf of Alaska, Marine Geology, Vol. 43, N. 3-4, pp. M87‑M94, (also translated into Chinese and published in Haiyang Dizhi Yu Disiji Dizhi Qingdao).

3. Smoot, N.C., 1982.  Guyots of the Mid‑Emperor chain: swath mapped with multi‑ beam sonar, Marine Geology, Vol. 47, pp. 153‑163.

4. Smoot, N.C., 1982.  Northern Hess Rise extended by multi‑beam sonar, Tectonophysics, Vol. 89, pp. T27‑T32.

5. Smoot, N.C., 1983.  Guyots of the Dutton Ridge at the Bonin/ Mariana trench juncture as shown by multi‑beam surveys, Journal of Geology, Vol. 91, pp. 211‑220.

6. Smoot, N.C., 1983.  Ogasawara Plateau: multi‑beam sonar bathymetry and possible tectonic implications, Journal of Geology, Vol. 92, pp. 591‑598.

7. Smoot, N.C., 1983.  Ninigi and Godaigo Seamounts:  Twins of the Emperor chain by multi‑beam sonar, Tectonophysics, Vol. 98, pp. T1‑T5.


8. Smoot, N.C., 1983.  Detailed bathymetry of guyot summits in the North Pacific by multi‑beam sonar, Surveying and Mapping, Vol. 43, No. 1, pp. 53‑60.

9. Smoot, N.C., 1984.  Multi‑beam surveys of the Michelson Ridge guyots: subduction or obduction, In:  Convergence and Subduction, T.W.C. Hilde and S. Uyeda, eds., Tectonophysics, Vol. 99, pp. 363‑380.

10. Smoot, N.C., 1984.  Guyots and tectonics of the Mid‑Emperor chain, In: Proceedings of the 27th International Geological Congress, Vol. 6, Geology of Ocean Basins (VNU Science Press, Utrecht), pp. 135‑152.

11. Stern, R.J., Smoot, N.C., and Rubin, M., 1984.  Unzipping of the volcano arc: implications for the evolution of back‑arc basins, In: R.L. Carlson and K. Kobayashi (eds), Geodynamics of backarc regions, Tectonophysics, Vol. 102, pp. 153‑174.

12. Vogt, P.R. and Smoot, N.C., 1984.  The Geisha Guyots: multi‑beam bathymetry and morphometric interpretation, Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 89, No. B13, pp. 11,085‑11,107.

13. Fryer, P. and Smoot, N.C., 1985.  Processes of seamount subduction in the Mariana and Izu‑Bonin trenches, Marine Geology, Vol. 64, pp. 77‑90.

14. Smoot, N.C., 1985.  Guyots and seamount morphology and tectonics of the Hawaiian‑Emperor elbow, Marine Geology, Vol. 64, pp. 203‑215.

15. Smoot, N.C., and Lowrie, A., 1985.  Emperor Fracture Zone morphology by multi‑ beam sonar, Journal of Geology, Vol. 93, pp. 196‑204.

16. Smoot, N.C., 1985.  Observations on Gulf of Alaska seamount chains by multi‑beam sonar, Tectonophysics, Vol. 115, pp. 235‑246.

17. Smoot, N.C., and Sharman, G.F., 1985.  Charlie‑Gibbs: a fracture zone ridge, In: G.F. Sharman, III and J. Francheteau (eds), Oceanic Lithosphere, Tectonophysics, Vol. 116, pp. 137‑142.

18. Smoot, N.C., Delaine, K., and Gregory, R.L., 1985.  A 3‑D model of Nintoku Guyot to predict paleo‑island morphology, ACSM Bulletin, pp. 23‑27.

19. Lowrie, A., Smoot, N.C., and Batiza, R., 1986.  Are oceanic fracture zones locked and strong or weak ?:  New evidence for volcanic activity and weakness, Geology, Vol. 14, pp. 242‑245.

20. Smoot, N.C. and Heffner, K.J., 1986.  Bathymetry and possible tectonic interaction of the Uyeda Ridge with its environment, Tectonophysics, Vol. 124, pp. 23‑36.

21. Smoot, N.C., 1986.  Seamounts by SASS‑chains through forearc seamounts, In: Proceedings MDS '86, Gulf Coast Marine Technology Society, pp. 470‑477.

22. Smoot, N.C. and Richardson, D.B., 1988.  Multi‑beam based 3D geomorphology of the Ogasawara Plateau region, Marine Geology, Vol. 79, pp. 141‑147.

23. Smoot, N.C., 1988.  The growth rate of submarine volcanoes on the South Honshu and East Mariana ridges, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, Vol. 35, pp. 1‑15.

24. Epp, D. and Smoot, N.C., 1989.  Distribution of seamounts in the North Atlantic, Nature, Vol. 337, pp. 254‑257.

25. Stern, R.J., Bloomer, S.H., Lin, P‑N., and Smoot, N.C. 1989.  Submarine arc volcanism in the southern Mariana arc as an ophiolite analogue, Tectonophysics, Vol. 168, pp. 151‑170.

26. Smoot, N.C., 1989.  The Marcus‑Wake seamounts and guyots as paleofracture indicators and their relation to the Dutton Ridge, Marine Geology, Vol. 88, pp. 117‑131.

27. Smoot, N.C., 1989.  North Atlantic fracture-zone distribution and patterns shown by multibeam sonar, Geology, Vol. 17, pp. 1119‑1122.

28. Bloomer, S.H., Stern, R.J., and Smoot, N.C., 1989.  Physical volcanology of the submarine Mariana and Volcano arcs, Bulletin of Volcanology, Vol. 51, pp. 210‑224.

29. Smoot, N.C., 1990.  Mariana Trough morphology by multi‑beam sonar, Geo‑Marine Letters, Vol. 10, pp. 137‑144.

30. Smoot, N.C., 1990.  North Atlantic fracture-zone distribution and patterns shown by multibeam sonar (Reply), Geology, Vol. 18, pp. 912‑914.


31. Smoot, N.C., 1991.  The growth rate of submarine volcanoes on the South Honshu and East Mariana Ridges (Reply), Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, Vol. 45, pp. 341‑345.

32. Smoot, N.C., 1991.  The Mariana Trench convergent margin at the Magellan Seamounts: tectonics and geomorphology, Marine Technology Society '91 Proceedings, Vol. 1, pp. 85‑91.

33. Smoot, N.C., and King, R.E., 1992.  Three‑dimensional surface geomorphology of submarine landslides on NW Pacific plate guyots, Geomorphology, Vol. 6, pp. 151‑174.

34. Smoot, N.C. and Meyerhoff, A.A., 1995.  Tectonic fabric of the North Atlantic Ocean floor: speculation vs. reality, Journal of Petroleum Geology, Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 207-222.

35. Smoot, N.C., 1995.  Mass wasting and subaerial weathering in guyot formation: the Hawaiian and Canary Ridges as examples, Geomorphology, Vol. 14, pp. 29-41.

36. Smoot, N.C., 1995.  The Chinook Trough: a trans-Pacific fracture zone, in: Proceedings of the Third Thematic Conference on Remote Sensing for Marine and Coastal Environments, Vol. II, pp. 539-550.

37. Smoot, N.C., 1997.  Seafloor fabric and surge tectonics, Proceedings of the Fourth   Thematic Conference for Remote Sensing in Marine and Coastal Environments, Vol. II, pp. 518-527.

38. Smoot, N.C., 1997.  Aligned aseismic buoyant highs, across-trench deformation, clustered volcanoes, and deep earthquakes are not aligned with the current plate-tectonic theory, Geomorphology, Vol. 18, Nos. 3/4, pp. 199-222.

39. Smoot, N.C. and King, R.E., 1997.  The Darwin Rise demise: The western Pacific guyot heights trace the trans-Pacific Mendocino Fracture Zone, Geomorphology, Vol. 18, Nos. 3/4, pp. 223-236.

40. Smoot, N.C., 1997.  Earthquakes at convergent margins, New Concepts in Global Tectonics Newsletter, No. 4, pp. 10-12.

41. Smoot, N.C. and Leybourne, B.A., 1997.  Vortex structures on the world-encircling vortex street: Case study of the South Adriatic basin, Marine Technology Society Journal, Vol. 31, No. 2, pp. 21-35.

42. Smoot, N.C., 1997.  Magma floods, microplates, and orthogonal intersections, New Concepts in Global Tectonics Newsletter, No. 5, pp. 8-13.

43. Leybourne, B.A. and Smoot, N.C., 1997.  Ocean basin structural trends based on GEOSAT altimetry data, in: Ocean Technology at Stennis Space Center: Proceedings of the Gulf Coast Chapter Marine Technology Society, pp. 135-140.

44. Smoot, N.C. and Murchison, R.R., 1998.  Deep-ocean technology, bathymetry, and tectonics, Proceedings of the International Symposium on New Concepts in Global Tectonics, pp. 178-183.

45. Smoot, N.C. and Leybourne, B.A., 1998. Remotely sensed data contribute to the paradigm shift of ocean basin tectonics: the Banda Sea vortex structure as an example, Proceedings of the International Symposium on New Concepts in Global Tectonics, pp. 262-267.

46. Smoot, N.C., 1998. The trans-Pacific Chinook Trough megatrend, Geomorphology, Vol. 24, No. 4, pp. 333-351.

47. Stern, R.J. and Smoot, N.C., 1998.  A bathymetric overview of the Mariana forearc. In: R.J. Stern and M. Arima (eds), Special Issue: Geophysical and Geochemical Studies of the Izu-Bonin-Mariana Arc System, The Island Arc, Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 525-540.

48. Smoot, N.C., 1998. Multibeam bathymetry and the public, New Concepts in Global Tectonics Newsletter, No. 8, pp. 4-8.

49. Smoot, N.C., 1998. WNW-ESE Pacific lineations, New Concepts in Global Tectonics Newsletter, No. 9, pp. 7-11.

50.  Smoot, N.C., 1999.  An appeal for using some sense, New Concepts in Global Tectonics Newsletter, No. 13, pp. 23-25.

51. Smoot, N.C., 1999.  Orthogonal intersections of megatrends in the Mesozoic Pacific Ocean basin: a case study of the Mid-Pacific Mountains, Geomorphology, Vol. 30, pp. 323-356.

52. Smoot, N.C., 2000. The Darwin phoenix rises yet again. New Concepts in Global Tectonics Newsletter, Vol. 14, pp. 2-4.


53. Smoot, N.C., 2001. Ocean Survey Program (OSP) bathymetry history: Jousting with tectonic windmills. In: J.M. Dickins, A.K. Dubey, D.R. Choi, and Y. Fujita (eds) Special Volume on New Concepts in Global Tectonics, Himalayan Geology, Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 65-80.

54. Leybourne, B.A. and Smoot, N.C., 2001.  Surge hypothesis implies gravitational teleconnection of tectonics to climate: El Nino and the central Pacific geostream/jet-stream. In: J.M. Dickins, A.K. Dubey, D.R. Choi, and Y. Fujita (eds) Special Volume on New Concepts in Global Tectonics, Himalayan Geology, Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 139-152.

55. Smoot, N.C. and Leybourne, B.A., 2001. The Central Pacific Megatrend. International Geology Review, Vol. 43, No. 4, pp. 341-365. 

56. Smoot, N.C., 2001. Earth geodynamics hypotheses updated. Journal of Scientific Exploration, Vol. 15, No. 4, pp. 465-494.

57. Smoot, N.C., 2001. Fingernails, GPS, and Pacific basin closure. New Concepts in Global Tectonics Newsletter, No. 21, pp. 24-25.  This one was also reprinted in The Australian Geologist, No. 123, June 2002.

58. Smoot, N.C. and Choi, D.R., 2003. The North Pacific Megatrend, International Geology Review. Vol. 45, No. 4, pp. 346-370.

 

ABSTRACTS AND PRESENTATIONS(*):

 

1. Smoot, N.C.*, 1980.  Interpretation of Deep Sea Sounding Data, Niagara Falls, 8 October.

2. Smoot, N.C.*, 1981.  Subduction or obduction of the Michelson Ridge, Symposium on Convergence and Subduction, Texas A&M University, 23 April.

3. Smoot, N.C.*, 1981.  One pulse of the Mid‑Emperor chain volcanic episodicity as swath mapped by multi‑beam sonar, Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, Vol. 62, No. 45, p. 1068, San Francisco, 8 December.

4. Vogt, P.R.*, and Smoot, N.C., 1982.  Morphometric studies of guyots and other seamounts based on multi‑beam bathymetry, Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, Vol. 63, No. 45, p. 1108.

5. Smoot, N.C.*, 1982.  Mariana back‑arc region, Proceedings of Symposium on Geodynamics of Back‑Arc Regions, Texas A & M University, 30 April.

6. Smoot, N.C.*, 1982.  History of evolution of seamounts, Seamount Symposium‑The Origin and Evolution of Seamounts, pp. 1‑2, Lamont‑Doherty Laboratory of Columbia University, 17 November.

7. Smoot, N.C.*, 1983.  North Pacific fracture zones, Proceedings of Symposium on Geodynamics of Ocean Lithosphere, Texas A & M University, 29 April.

8. Smoot, N.C., 1983.  Guyot definition altered by multi‑beam sonar‑ an updating of paleo‑bathymetry, Science, Abstracts of 149th Meeting, p. 150.

9. Taylor, B., and Smoot, N.C., 1983.  Mass wasting of the Bonin forearc, Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, Vol. 64, No. 45, p. 829.

10. Smoot, N.C., 1983.  Guyots and tectonics of the Mid-Emperor Chain, Tezisy, 27-y Mezhdunarodnyy Geologicheskiy Kongress, Vol 27, No. 3, N.A. Bogdanov (ed), p. 410 (participation canceled due to Russia's downing of the Korean airliner over the Sea of Okhotsk).

11. Smoot, N.C.*, Delaine, K., and Gregory, R.L., 1984.  A 3‑D model of Nintoku Guyot to predict paleo‑island morphology, SEG/USN Symposium on 3‑D Marine Interpretation and Presentation, National Space Technology Laboratories, 13 March.

12. Vogt, P.R., and Smoot, N.C., 1984.  Morphometry of Pacific guyots, Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, Vol. 65, No. 16, p. 301.

13. Vogt, P.R. and Smoot, N.C., 1984.  Morphology of flank rift zones of guyots and seamounts in the Pacific, Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, Vol. 65, No. 43.

14. Vogt, P.R. and Smoot, N.C., 1984.  The Geisha Guyots: multi‑beam bathymetry and morphometric interpretation, Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, Vol. 65, No. 43.

15. Smoot, N.C.*, 1984.  Guyots, seamounts, and tectonics of the Hawaiian Emperor elbow by multi‑beam sonar, Proceedings Pacific Conference on Marine Technology, OSTS/15.


16. Smoot, N.C.*, 1985.  JOIDES/USSAC Workshop on carbonate banks and guyots, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California, 6‑8 August.

17. Vogt, P.R. and Smoot, N.C., 1985.  Mesoscale multi‑beam morphometry of guyots and large seamounts, Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, Vol. 66, No. 46, p. 1080.

18. Stern, R.J., Bloomer, S., and Smoot, N.C., 1986.  Submarine volcanoes in the Mariana Arc, Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, Vol. 67, No. 16, p.411.

19. Smoot, N.C.*, 1986.  Seamounts by SASS‑chains through forearc seamounts, Marine Technology Society, New Orleans.

20. Smoot, N.C.*, 1986, JOIDES/USSAC Workshop on Seamounts, Lamont‑Doherty of Columbia University, 4‑5 June.

21. Smoot, N.C.* and Tucholke, B., 1986.  Multi‑beam sonar evidence for evolution of Corner Rise and Cruiser Seamount Groups, Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, Vol. 67, No. 44, p. 1221, San Francisco, December.

22. Epp, D. and Smoot, N.C., 1988.  Distribution of seamounts in the North Atlantic, Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, Vol. 69, No. 16, p. 462.

23. Smoot, N.C.*, 1988.  North Atlantic fracture valley distribution and patterns, Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, Vol. 69, No. 16, p. 462, Baltimore, May.

24. Bloomer, S.H., Stern, R.J., and Smoot, N.C., 1988.  Size and spacing relations in submarine volcanoes in the Mariana and southern Volcano arcs: implications for the development of intraoceanic arcs, Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, Vol. 69, No. 16, p. 506.

25. Smoot, N.C.*, 1990.  Surface morphology of submarine landslides on Pacific plate seamounts. Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, Vol. 71, p. 1578, San Francisco, 3 December.

26. Smoot, N.C.*, 1991.  The Mariana Trench convergent margin at the Magellan Sea-mounts: tectonics and geomorphology, Marine Technology Society, New Orleans, 11 November.

27. Smoot, N.C.*, 1993.  Geomorphic effects of seamounts in NW Pacific subduction zones, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 25, p. A‑379, Boston, 28 October.

28. Smoot, N.C. and King, R.E., 1993.  The Darwin Rise demise, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 25, p. A‑379.

29. Smoot, N.C.*, 1994.  Plate-wide Pacific trends--orthogonal fracture intersections, Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, Vol. 75, No. 25, p. 69, Hong Kong, 29 July.

30. Smoot, N.C.*, 1994.  The relation of seamounts to interplate deformation in the North Pacific, Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, Vol. 75, No. 44, p. 582, San Francisco, 5 December.

31. Kim, J., Sager, W.W., Klaus, A., Smoot, N.C., Nakanishi, M., Khankishieva, L., and Brown, G.R., 1995.  New bathymetry chart of Shatsky Rise, NW Pacific Ocean, Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, Vol. 76, p. F329.

32. Smoot, N.C.*, 1995.  The Chinook Trough: a trans-Pacific fracture zone, Seattle, 20 September.

33. Smoot, N.C.*, 1996.  Real data calls for alternate tectonic hypotheses, Gulf Coast Marine Technology Society Meeting, Slidell, Louisiana, 28 February.

34. Smoot, N.C.*, 1996.  Bathymetry of the Mid-Pacific Mountains: Orthogonal fracture zone intersections and vortex structures, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 28, No. 7, p. A-55, Denver, 28 October.

35. Smoot, N.C.*, 1997.  Seafloor fabric and surge tectonics, Orlando, Florida, 20 March.

36. Smoot, N.C.*, 1997.  Ocean basin structural trends based on GEOSAT altimetry data, Stennis Space Center, Mississippi, 24 April.

37. Smoot, N.C.* and Murchison, R.R., 1998.  Deep-ocean technology, bathymetry, and tectonics, Tsukuba, Japan, 23 November.

38. Smoot, N.C.* and Leybourne, B.A., 1998. Remotely sensed data contribute to the paradigm shift of ocean basin tectonics: the Banda Sea vortex structure as an example, Tsukuba, Japan, 23 November.


39. Smoot, N.C., 2001. Fracture zones, megatrends, and intersections in the Pacific.  Proceedings of the International Workshop on Global Wrench Tectonics, pp. 1-38, Oslo, Norway, 9-11 May (also published on Internet by earthevolution.org). 

40.  Smoot, N.C.*, 2002. Ubiquitous megatrends obfuscate seafloor spreading concept, La Junta, Colorado, 6 May.

41.  Bhat, M.I., Smoot, N.C. and Choi, D.R., 2002. Indian earthquakes shake Earth’s geodynamic foundations, Proceedings of New Concepts in Global Tectonics, pp. 287-288, La Junta, Colorado, 8 May.

 

LONGER TREATISES

 

1. Smoot, N.C., 1986. Bathymetric Atlas of North Pacific Guyots. (Masters Thesis, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg), 129 p.

2. Smoot, N.C. and Jones, C.E., 1990.  Pearl River County Veterans (Delta Printing Co., Bogalusa, Louisiana), 218 p.

3. Smoot, N.C., 1991.  North Pacific Guyots, Naval Oceanographic Office Technical Note TN 01‑91, 101 p.

4. Smoot, N.C., 1992.  Pearl River County Veterans II: War Stories and Sea Tales (Rivercross Publishing Co., New York), 432 p.

5. Smoot, N.C., 1993.  Bathymetry: Collection, Processing, Interpretation. Naval               Oceanographic Office Training Manual, TM 03‑93, 299 p.

6. Meyerhoff, A.A., Taner, I., Morris, A.E.L., Agocs, W.B., Kamen-Kaye, M., Bhat, M.I., Smoot, N.C., and Choi, D.R., (ed) D.M. Hull, 1996.  Surge Tectonics: A New Hypothesis of Global Dynamics (Kluwer Academic Publishing, Dordrecht), 323 p.

7.  Smoot, N.C. and Pearson, D., 1999. Pearl River County Graves Registration Project-War Between the States Veterans, 180 p.

8.  Smoot, N.C., Choi, D.R., and Bhat, M.I., 2001. Active Margin Geomorphology, (X-libris Corp. Philadelphia USA), 164 p.

9.  Smoot, N.C., Choi, D.R., and Bhat, M.I., 2001.  Marine Geomorphology, (X-libris Corp., Philadelphia USA), 310 p.