A multi-national, multi-parameter marine study of the Western Solomon Sea and region-Part II.

In 1983-84, a cooperative geological/geophysical program was carried out in the western Solomon Sea and northeastern Bismarck Sea on the Japanese vessel Natsushima. Scientists representing Japan, Australia, Papua New Guinea, and the regional marine geoscience organization CCOP/SOPAC participated in the study. The first papers were published in Geo-Marine Letters, Volume 6, No. 4. This issue, containing six papers, is the second on the results of that work and the final of the special issues on the 'Western Solomon Sea and Region.' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]