Annals of the South African MuseumThe Museum, 1987 - Natural history |
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... events ; ( b ) the ' East Coast ' shows features in a transect down the Natal Valley to the Transkei Basin , where the Agulhas Current and NADW have dominated sedimentary events . Major erosion events commence at horizons marked by a ...
... events ; ( b ) the ' East Coast ' shows features in a transect down the Natal Valley to the Transkei Basin , where the Agulhas Current and NADW have dominated sedimentary events . Major erosion events commence at horizons marked by a ...
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... event ( or events ) stripped at least 500 m of middle and late Tertiary cover from the continental rise and basin floor along the eastern Cape Basin ( Bolli et al . 1978 ; Tucholke & Embley 1984 ; Siesser et al . in press ) . In the ...
... event ( or events ) stripped at least 500 m of middle and late Tertiary cover from the continental rise and basin floor along the eastern Cape Basin ( Bolli et al . 1978 ; Tucholke & Embley 1984 ; Siesser et al . in press ) . In the ...
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... event may correlate with part of the 1,0-2,5 m.y. ( Matuyama Chron ) AABW erosion event identified by Ledbetter & Ciesielski ( 1986 ) in the Southern Ocean . Ancillary processes , which may have precipitated or facilitated alloch ...
... event may correlate with part of the 1,0-2,5 m.y. ( Matuyama Chron ) AABW erosion event identified by Ledbetter & Ciesielski ( 1986 ) in the Southern Ocean . Ancillary processes , which may have precipitated or facilitated alloch ...
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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