Annals of the South African MuseumThe Museum, 1987 - Natural history |
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... head regions lie in about 1 900 m water depths . ( b ) A major slump ( up to 720 m thick ) lies on the north - west face of the Orange Shelf ( Chamais Slump ) . There is an extensive fissured head zone ( lying between 200-1 500 m water ...
... head regions lie in about 1 900 m water depths . ( b ) A major slump ( up to 720 m thick ) lies on the north - west face of the Orange Shelf ( Chamais Slump ) . There is an extensive fissured head zone ( lying between 200-1 500 m water ...
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... heads of all the west - coast allochtho- nous masses lie in zones of outer shelf - upper slope biogenic carbonate sands ... head region contains a fissured zone and several large glide - plane scars that intersect Pliocene limestones and ...
... heads of all the west - coast allochtho- nous masses lie in zones of outer shelf - upper slope biogenic carbonate sands ... head region contains a fissured zone and several large glide - plane scars that intersect Pliocene limestones and ...
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... heads intersect authigenic mineral - rich sediments as far north as the Fish River ( c . 33 ° 30'S ) , but otherwise ... head almost to the modern coast ( Bang 1968 ; Flemming 1981 ; Martin 1984 ) , where they were presumably linked to ...
... heads intersect authigenic mineral - rich sediments as far north as the Fish River ( c . 33 ° 30'S ) , but otherwise ... head almost to the modern coast ( Bang 1968 ; Flemming 1981 ; Martin 1984 ) , where they were presumably linked to ...
Contents
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