LA JOLLA, California, June 22 -- The University of California San Diego campus posted the following news:

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Peter Lonsdale: 1948-2026

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Peter Lonsdale, a professor and researcher of marine geology at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography, died May 10, 2026, at the age of 78.

Over more than five decades at Scripps Oceanography, he contributed to foundational developments in understanding of deep-sea geology, i . . .

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