Annals of the South African MuseumThe Museum, 1987 - Natural history |
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... slope is smooth , regular and canyon - free . The slides ' 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 ...
... slope is smooth , regular and canyon - free . The slides ' 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 ...
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... slope . Significant slope wasting processes probably operated south of the Cape Canyon immediately following slumping ( creating the relatively rugged slope topography ) , and may reactivate during low sea - levels when the small rivers ...
... slope . Significant slope wasting processes probably operated south of the Cape Canyon immediately following slumping ( creating the relatively rugged slope topography ) , and may reactivate during low sea - levels when the small rivers ...
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... slope rotation of blocks in Plio - Pleistocene time ( Stage III ) . A post - Stage III ( ? Pleistocene ) episode of erosion by AABW is indicated by the trimmed outer edges of some of the allochthonous units south - west of Cape Town ...
... slope rotation of blocks in Plio - Pleistocene time ( Stage III ) . A post - Stage III ( ? Pleistocene ) episode of erosion by AABW is indicated by the trimmed outer edges of some of the allochthonous units south - west of Cape Town ...
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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