Influence of abyssal circulation on sedimentary accumulations in space and time / edited by Bruce C. Heezen. - Amsterdam ; New York : New York : Elsevier Scientific Pub. ; Distributors for U.S. and Canada, Elsevier/North-Holland, 1977. - 1 online resource (215 pages) : illustrations. - Developments in sedimentology ; 23 . - Developments in sedimentology ; 23. .

Papers from a symposium held Aug. 27, 1975 in Grenoble, France, and sponsored by the International Association for the Physical Sciences of the Ocean's Commission on Marine Geophysics. "Reprinted from Marine geology, vol. 23, no. 1/2."

Includes bibliographical references.

Front Cover; Influence of Abyssal Circulation on Sedimentary Accumulations in Space and Time; Copyright Page; Preface; Contents; Chapter 1. Vema Channel paleo-oceanography : Pleistocene dissolution cycles and episodic bottom water flow; Chapter 2. Paleocurrents in the eastern Caribbean: geologic evidence and implications; Chapter 3. Abyssal bedforms explored with a deeply towed instrument package; Chapter 4. Sediment transport down a seamount flank by a combined current and gravity process.

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Marine sediments--Congresses.
Ocean circulation--Congresses.
Abyssal zone--Congresses.
Sédiments marins--Congrès.
Circulation océanique--Congrès.
Abysses--Congrès.
SCIENCE--Earth Sciences--Oceanography.
NATURE--Ecosystems & Habitats--Oceans & Seas.
Abyssal zone.
Marine sediments.
Ocean circulation.


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