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) ) THE HISTORY OF SEDIMENTATION AND ABYSSAL CIRCULATION ON THE GREATER ANTILLES OUTER RIDGE by BRIAN EDWARD TUCHOLKE B.S., South Dakota School of Mines & Technology (1968) Signature of Certified SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY at the MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY and the WOO D S H 0 LEO C E A N 0 G RA PHI C ~.~~ INS TIT UTI 0 N August, 1973 .. Author.... .................................... Join Program in Oceanography, Massachusetts In~~itute of Technology - Woods Hole Oceanographic <strong>Institution</strong>, and Department of Earth & Pl anetary Sci ences, and Department of Meteorology, Massachusetts Insti- /?Jte of Technology, August,1973 by. ~~¿,p.'" ~.................. Thes is Supervi sor Accepted by.. .O.~/,.Ý'c:-~-.C'. . .?-i; .~.-l~~";~. . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . " ~hairman, Joint Oceanography Committee in the Earth Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Woods Hole Oceanographic <strong>Institution</strong>
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) ) THE TRANSPARENT LAYER The distr
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) ) GENERAL LITHOLOGY CHAPTER iv TH
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~ , ) Figure 4.1. General lithology
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average of 80% lutite (~ 2 ~m) and
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10 m2, with an average value of 1.3
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The laminated zones and overlying p
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) ) Figure 4.7. Graph of carbonate
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currents have transported many Fora
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increased dissolution (elevated lys
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TABLE 4.1. MINERALOGY OF THE c 2 ~m
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the following peaks and weighting f
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TABLE 5.1. AVERAGE RATES OF SEDIMEN
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and thus the T-Z zonation (Fig. 5.1
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TABLE 5.2. AVERAGE RATES OF SEDIMEN
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Cl z: c: l/ l. i- c: Cl z: o OJ IX
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consolidated (A.J. Silva, pers. com
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in age, and the ash is probably ass
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122 must result from mixing with th
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eas twa rd flow of NADW between 150
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whi ch recorded currents for about
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ottom photographs in February, 1972
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Several important features were obs
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145 bottle spacing. An example is t
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) ~) 154 Figure 6.7. Current patter
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) ) 72° DEPTH IN CORR. METERS Fi g
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) ) speeds of 2 cm/sec (the stall s
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) Figure 6.13. Directions and relat
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S e c t ion 2 (F i g s. 6. 1, 6. 7)
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northwest flow along the west flank
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filter (0.50 lJmpore size). After f
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extensive erosion on the lower cont
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The less than 2 ~m (lutite) fractio
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TAB LE 7. 1. CALCULATE D CLAY MI NE
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cannot always be accepted at face v
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The apparent enrichment of chlorite
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in favor of the concept that the su
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on the north flank of the far easte
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that enough suspended matter has be
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The following pages describe a mode
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series of ridges associated with an
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Eocene to 01 i gocene (Monroe, 1968
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(Table 8.1). The interbedded silts
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229 Chase and Hersey, 1968). The th
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Downslope sedimentation covered the
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) ) homogenei ty of the sediments o
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248 Biscaye, P.E. and S.L. Eittreim
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Ericson, D.B., M. Ewing, G. Wollin
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Hersey, J.B. (1965) Sediment pondin
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McCullough, J.R. and G.H. Tupper (1
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Swallow, J.C. and L.V. Worthington
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259 approximation of the amount of
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TABLE A2.1. BOTTOM PHOTOGRAPHS (Con
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TABLE A2.1. BOTTOM PHOTOGRAPHS (Con
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TAB LE A2. 1. BOTTOM PHOTOGRAPHS (C
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CH 19 CH 19 CH 19 CH 34 CH 34 TABLE
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KN25 KN 25 KN 25 KN 25 TABLE A2.1.
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TABLE A3.1. SUSPENDED PARTICULATE M
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) -) APPENDIX IV PHYSICAL PROPERTIE
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) /) 295 Figure A4.5. Plots of wate
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) ) 307 Fi gure A4.11. Plots of wat
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) 312 WATER CONTENT (%DRY WT) SHEAR
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) J BIOGRAPHY Born: Ma rch 19, 1946
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') \ ) ~UWDATORY DISTRIBUTION LIST
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UNCLASSI FIED 1/31/74 SECURITY CLAS
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