Influence of abyssal circulation on sedimentary accumulations in space and time / edited by Bruce C. Heezen.
Series: Developments in sedimentology ; 23.1977Description: 1 online resource (215 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780080869353
- 0080869351
- 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
- GC377 .I53 1977eb

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.
Print version record.
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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