Techniques and technology of exploration in the Gulf of the Farallones / Kaye Kinoshita and John L. Chin
Regional setting / John L. Chin and Russell W. Graymer
Earthquakes, faults, and tectonics / Holly F. Ryan, Stephanie L. Ross, and Russell W. Graymer
Landscape of the sea floor / Herman A. Carl and William C. Schwab
Current patterns over the continental shelf and slope / Marlene A. Noble
Sediment of the sea floor / Herman A. Karl
Chemical composition of surface sediments on the sea floor / Walter E. Dean and James V. Gardner
Heavy-mineral provinces on the continental shelf / Florence L. Wong
Biology and ecological niches in the Gulf of the Farallones
Phytoplankton / Gregg W. Langlois and Patricia Smith
Krill / Dan Howard
Free-floating larvae of crabs, sea urchins, and rockfishes / Stephen R. Wing
Salmon / Peter Adams
Seabirds / Peter Pyle
Marine mammals / Jan Roletto
White sharks / Scot Anderson
Continental slope communities / Tom Laidig
Disposal of dredged material and other waste on the continental shelf and slope / John L. Chin and Allan Ota
Search for containers of radioactive waste on the sea floor / Herman A. Karl
Measuring radioactivity from waste drums on the sea floor / David G. Jones, Philip D. Roberts, and Johannes Limburg.