Geology and Geochemistry of Abyssal Plains
- ISBN-10
- 178620004X
- ISBN-13
- 9781786200044
- Category
- Abyssal zone
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1987
- Authors
- J. Thomson, P. P. E. Weaver
Description
The papers in this volume cover various aspects of the geophysics, sedimentology, geochemistry and geotechnics of abyssal-plain sediments. They include: Sedimentology of basin plains; Influence of bottom currents on sediment texture and sea-floor morphology in the Argentine Basin; Sedimentation on the Madeira Abyssal Plain over the last 300 000 years; Mapping of hemipelagic versus turbiditic muds by feeding traces observed in deep-sea photographs; Geochemical oxidation fronts in NE Atlantic distal turbidites and their effects in the sedimentary record; and others.
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