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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... slope and rise off south - western Africa , which has been a sediment - starved margin since mid - Tertiary times ( Dingle et al . 1987 ) . The principle physiographic features of this region are slumps . These produce minor sea - floor ...
... slope and rise off south - western Africa , which has been a sediment - starved margin since mid - Tertiary times ( Dingle et al . 1987 ) . The principle physiographic features of this region are slumps . These produce minor sea - floor ...
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... slope ( < 1,5 km ) lie under the northward flowing Antarctic Intermediate Water ( AAIW ) , whereas all the middle to lower slope , and upper continental rise ( > 1,5 km ) lie under the southward flowing North Atlantic Deep Water ( NADW ) ...
... slope ( < 1,5 km ) lie under the northward flowing Antarctic Intermediate Water ( AAIW ) , whereas all the middle to lower slope , and upper continental rise ( > 1,5 km ) lie under the southward flowing North Atlantic Deep Water ( NADW ) ...
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... Slope Biofacies ) ; 1 500-2 399 m ( North East Atlantic Deep Water mass ; Transitional Biofacies ) ; and > 2 400 m ( Denmark Strait Overflow Water mass ; Lower Slope and Rise Biofacies ) . Benson et al . ( 1983 ) concluded that the ...
... Slope Biofacies ) ; 1 500-2 399 m ( North East Atlantic Deep Water mass ; Transitional Biofacies ) ; and > 2 400 m ( Denmark Strait Overflow Water mass ; Lower Slope and Rise Biofacies ) . Benson et al . ( 1983 ) concluded that the ...
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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