Annals of the South African MuseumThe Museum, 1987 - Natural history |
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... Ridge South face of Naude Ridge www.w NADW ww ABW north of 37 ° S -4.6 km Mozambique Basin ? invasion route for turbidites into Transkei Basin Fig . 5. Schematic and partly speculative model for the construction of various sedimentary ...
... Ridge South face of Naude Ridge www.w NADW ww ABW north of 37 ° S -4.6 km Mozambique Basin ? invasion route for turbidites into Transkei Basin Fig . 5. Schematic and partly speculative model for the construction of various sedimentary ...
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... Mozambique Ridge , at the southern end of which the AABW and NADW masses reunite and flow eastwards and then northwards into the Mozambique Basin ( Kolla et al . 1980 ) . Two long ( at least 300 km ) sediment drifts occur in the eastern ...
... Mozambique Ridge , at the southern end of which the AABW and NADW masses reunite and flow eastwards and then northwards into the Mozambique Basin ( Kolla et al . 1980 ) . Two long ( at least 300 km ) sediment drifts occur in the eastern ...
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... Mozambique Ridge . Both are topographi- cally isolated from significant terrigenous input , and lie above the carbonate lysocline . The Mozambique Ridge is covered by sands that have a carbonate content that is generally greater than 75 ...
... Mozambique Ridge . Both are topographi- cally isolated from significant terrigenous input , and lie above the carbonate lysocline . The Mozambique Ridge is covered by sands that have a carbonate content that is generally greater than 75 ...
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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