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... Canyon , whose thalweg is littered with detached blocks where it crosses the lower slope ( Dingle 1986 ) . The head region of the canyon and associated glide planes intersect a major shelf zone of authigenic sediments west of Cape Town ...
... Canyon , whose thalweg is littered with detached blocks where it crosses the lower slope ( Dingle 1986 ) . The head region of the canyon and associated glide planes intersect a major shelf zone of authigenic sediments west of Cape Town ...
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... Canyon ) appear to have feeders or chutes , presumably because there is either insufficient sediment , or no mechanism to divert significant quantities of shelf sediment on to the continental slope . Significant slope wasting processes ...
... Canyon ) appear to have feeders or chutes , presumably because there is either insufficient sediment , or no mechanism to divert significant quantities of shelf sediment on to the continental slope . Significant slope wasting processes ...
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... canyon / glide - plane heads intersect authigenic mineral - rich sediments as far north as the Fish River ( c . 33 ... Canyon , although neither appears to be structurally controlled . The southernmost ( Tugela Canyon ) debouches on to ...
... canyon / glide - plane heads intersect authigenic mineral - rich sediments as far north as the Fish River ( c . 33 ... Canyon , although neither appears to be structurally controlled . The southernmost ( Tugela Canyon ) debouches on to ...
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SOUTHERN AFRICA SOUTHEAST ATLANTIC AND SOUTHWEST | 2 |
Acknowledgements | 23 |
Vereeniging 1930 South Africa Department of Geology Vanderbilt University Nashville | 31 |
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AABW erosion Agulhas Bank Agulhas Basin Agulhas Current Agulhas Drift Agulhas Passage Agulhas Plateau Agulhas Ridge allochthonous Atlantic and south-west authigenic authigenic sediments Bathymetry Benguela Current benthic berg winds BIRCH BREMNER Camden-Smith 1979 Cape Basin Cape Canyon Cape Town Marine carbonate sands Cenozoic Central Terrace cm/sec coastal continental margin continental shelf continental slope deposition detritus Diester-Haass Dingle & Camden-Smith Dingle & Robson east coast Emery erosion surface Flemming Goodlad Indian Ocean Joint Geological Survey/University Kolla late Miocene Marine Geology Marine Geoscience Unit modern Mozambique Basin Mozambique Ridge NADW Natal Valley Neogene ocean basins Oceanography Oligocene outer Pleistocene Pliocene Port St Johns Quaternary region ROGERS sea-floor sediment shelf sediment SIESSER slumps South Africa south-east Africa south-west Indian oceans steady-state Survey/University of Cape terrigenous terrigenous input Town Marine Geoscience Transkei Basin Tucholke & Embley turbidites University of Cape Walvis Ridge water depth west coast West Transkei Drift Westall