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  1. Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry (GEOKhI), RAS, Russia

    G. B. Udintsev (RAS Corresponding Member, head of a laboratory)

  2. Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), Germany

    H. W. Schenke (doctor-engineer and head of the bathymetry group)

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Original Russian Text © G.B. Udintsev, H.W. Schenke, 2006, published in Vestnik Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, 2006, Vol. 76, No. 12, pp. 1099–1114.

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Udintsev, G.B., Schenke, H.W. Undersea geophysical research near the Earth’s South Pole. Her. Russ. Acad. Sci. 76, 549–563 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1019331606060050

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