Annals of the South African Museum: Annale Van Die Suid-Afrikaanse MuseumWest, Newman & Company for the trustees of the Museum, 1989 - Natural history |
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... sea - floor sediments ( Fig . 6 ) indicate that the species peaks ( up to 60 % total ostracod population ) at about 250 m water depth , where the mud content of the sediment is lowest ( mean of 30 % ) . On the adjacent inner shelf and ...
... sea - floor sediments ( Fig . 6 ) indicate that the species peaks ( up to 60 % total ostracod population ) at about 250 m water depth , where the mud content of the sediment is lowest ( mean of 30 % ) . On the adjacent inner shelf and ...
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... Water depth ( m ) 500 Fig . 9. Percentage of adult valves of Poseidonamicus panopsus ( smoothed 5 - point means ) plotted against water depth . Note that peak values ( > 60 % ) lie around 200 m water depth , which is slightly shallower ...
... Water depth ( m ) 500 Fig . 9. Percentage of adult valves of Poseidonamicus panopsus ( smoothed 5 - point means ) plotted against water depth . Note that peak values ( > 60 % ) lie around 200 m water depth , which is slightly shallower ...
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... water temperatures are approximately 9,0 ° C - 5,8 ° C . 4. Limiting salinities are 34,70-34,4000- 5. Limiting ... depth ( km ) Fig . 11. Relative abundances of Poseidonamicus panopsus sp . nov . and Poseidonamicus major Benson ( percentage ...
... water temperatures are approximately 9,0 ° C - 5,8 ° C . 4. Limiting salinities are 34,70-34,4000- 5. Limiting ... depth ( km ) Fig . 11. Relative abundances of Poseidonamicus panopsus sp . nov . and Poseidonamicus major Benson ( percentage ...
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100 microns 1972 Poseidonamicus 250 m water AAIW Abbreviations abundance of Poseidonamicus adult valves Atlantic Deep Water Atlantic SW author's name Bathyal Benson & Peypouquet Campanian Cenozoic N Atlantic Chapman & Shannon continental margin continental shelf continental slope deep-water depth range dissolved oxygen DSDP Eocene eye tubercle Gastropoda genus hinge ears holotype internal ocular sinus juvenile MARGIN OF SOUTH-WESTERN mean mud contents Miocene ml/l Mozambique Channel NADW ocularis Whatley Oligocene Orange Shelf Orange Shelf area ostracod fauna ostracod population paratypes percentage of ostracod Peypouquet 1983 plotted against water Poseidonamicus major Benson Poseidonamicus panopsus sp Poseidonamicus sp Quaternary salinity minimum zone Scale bars scars separated SHALLOW-WATER SPECIES sighted species slope off south-western smoothed 5-point means South African Museum south-western Africa southern Africa species of Poseidonamicus St Helena Bay SW Cape Synonymy Table Tertiary upper depth limit Walvis Bay water depth Water mass Whatley & Coles Whatley et al