Annals of the South African MuseumThe Museum, 1987 - Natural history |
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... environments around southern Africa are explained in terms of regional oceanography and terrigenous sediment supply , and their spatial development is traced through Cenozoic time . The linkage of major changes in oceanic circulation to ...
... environments around southern Africa are explained in terms of regional oceanography and terrigenous sediment supply , and their spatial development is traced through Cenozoic time . The linkage of major changes in oceanic circulation to ...
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... environments , and features SEDIMENTARY ENVIRONMENTS ASSOCIATED FEATURES PROCESSES Episodic slope wasting and conti- nental rise and ocean basin accretion Steady - state benthic targeted accretion and ero- sion ( incl . authigenic min ...
... environments , and features SEDIMENTARY ENVIRONMENTS ASSOCIATED FEATURES PROCESSES Episodic slope wasting and conti- nental rise and ocean basin accretion Steady - state benthic targeted accretion and ero- sion ( incl . authigenic min ...
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... environments charac- terized by high terrigenous input and high - energy benthic boundary conditions ; the latter sustains low terrigenous input , low - energy benthic boundary conditions . Complex sea - floor morphology in the south ...
... environments charac- terized by high terrigenous input and high - energy benthic boundary conditions ; the latter sustains low terrigenous input , low - energy benthic boundary conditions . Complex sea - floor morphology in the south ...
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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