Annals of the South African Museum: Annale Van Die Suid-Afrikaanse MuseumWest, Newman & Company for the trustees of the Museum, 1990 - Natural history |
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... MUD CONTENT OF SEDIMENTS The mud ( silt and clay : < 63 micron ) content of 218 sediment samples from the continental margin off south - western Africa is plotted against water depth in Figure 59. There is a general increase in the mud ...
... MUD CONTENT OF SEDIMENTS The mud ( silt and clay : < 63 micron ) content of 218 sediment samples from the continental margin off south - western Africa is plotted against water depth in Figure 59. There is a general increase in the mud ...
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... mud D 90 % mud ם O o 80 o 100 100 Fig . 60. Number of ostracod valves / 100 g plotted against mud content of sample . The total ostracod fauna has been used . A. Samples from a water depth range of 0–1 800 m . The rectan- gular block in ...
... mud D 90 % mud ם O o 80 o 100 100 Fig . 60. Number of ostracod valves / 100 g plotted against mud content of sample . The total ostracod fauna has been used . A. Samples from a water depth range of 0–1 800 m . The rectan- gular block in ...
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... mud content of the sediments , locally there is a sympathetic relationship in alterations in mud content and overall ostracod abundance . On the continental shelf ( above the thermocline and within the influence of surface currents ) ...
... mud content of the sediments , locally there is a sympathetic relationship in alterations in mud content and overall ostracod abundance . On the continental shelf ( above the thermocline and within the influence of surface currents ) ...
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100 microns AAIW AAIW/NADW Abyssal Zone Agulhas Bank Ambocythere sp BATHYAL ABYSSAL bathyal and abyssal Cape Basin cent continental margin continental shelf Cythere Cytherella serratula Cytherella sp Cytheropteron cronini Cytheropteron sp deep-water depth range Dingle dorsal Dutoitella suhmi Echinocythereis whatleyi Eocene genus HKB assemblage holotype Krithe capensis Krithe peypouqueti Krithe rex Krithe sp Krithe species lectotype Lower Bathyal Zone Maastrichtian Miocene mud content Neritic Zone North Atlantic Parakrithe sp Peypouquet & Benson Pliocene plotted against water Poseidonamicus major posterior Puri & Hulings Quaternary recorded reticulation Ridge Rosenfeld & Bein Rugocythereis horridus RV internal view salinity minimum zone samples Sars Scale bars sediments shear zone south-western Africa suhmi Brady taxa taxon temperature thermocline total ostracod fauna total ostracod population Trachyleberis sp UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Upper Bathyal Zone valve Walvis Bay Walvis Ridge water depth water masses Whatley & Coles Zone boundary