Annals of the South African MuseumThe Museum, 1987 - Natural history |
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... zone ( lying between 200-1 500 m water depth ) and locally irregular sea - floor , but no evidence of canyons . The Orange River probably debouched directly into this region during Neogene and Quaternary low sea - levels ( Dingle ...
... zone ( lying between 200-1 500 m water depth ) and locally irregular sea - floor , but no evidence of canyons . The Orange River probably debouched directly into this region during Neogene and Quaternary low sea - levels ( Dingle ...
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... zone associated with the AABW circulation is shown in Figure 1 along the lower part of the west - coast continental rise . It generally lies between 4 and 4,5 km , and whilst Tucholke & Embley ( 1984 ) suggest that it probably is not ...
... zone associated with the AABW circulation is shown in Figure 1 along the lower part of the west - coast continental rise . It generally lies between 4 and 4,5 km , and whilst Tucholke & Embley ( 1984 ) suggest that it probably is not ...
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... zone between the NADW core and eddies developed against the irregular steep walls of the Mozambique Ridge . Fine suspensate , carried eastwards across the Natal Valley by eddies peeling off from the NADW and by turbidity currents ...
... zone between the NADW core and eddies developed against the irregular steep walls of the Mozambique Ridge . Fine suspensate , carried eastwards across the Natal Valley by eddies peeling off from the NADW and by turbidity currents ...
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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