CORRELATION OF SOME ATLANTIC TURBIDITES |
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| Authors: | R H BELDERSON A S LAUGHTO |
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| Institution: | National Institute of Oceanography, Wormley, Godalming, Survey (Great Britain) |
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| Abstract: | A study of six gravity cores from an abyssal plain at the western side of the Madeira-Cape Verde Basin shows that individual turbidites can extend over a distance of at least 35 miles (65 km) in this area of final turbidity current deposition. Cores from the continental rise include relatively thinner turbidites; evidence from one of these indicates some local erosion of the sea floor: this apparently did not exceed 15 cm (as represented in the core). |
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