Hollister, Charles Davis

Hollister, Charles Davis
▪ 2000

      American marine geologist whose pioneering studies of the deep-sea floor revealed the strong currents and storms that occur there; in the 1970s he extracted a 30-m (100-ft) core sample that contained a continuous 65 million-year-long record of ocean-basin history (b. March 18, 1936, Santa Barbara, Calif.—d. Aug. 23, 1999, Wyoming).

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