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Models for the deposition of Mesozoic-Cenozoic fine-grained organic-carbon-rich sediment in the deep sea Models for the deposition of Mesozoic-Cenozoic fine-grained organic-carbon-rich sediment in the deep sea

The widespread occurrence of organic-carbon-rich strata (‘black shales’) in certain portions of Jurassic, Cretaceous and Cenozoic sequences has been well-documented from Deep Sea Drilling Project sites in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and from sequences, now exposed on land, originally deposited in the Tethyan ocean. These ancient black shales usually have been explained by analogy...
Authors
M.A. Arthur, Walter E. Dean, D.A.V. Stow

Organic Geochemistry of Sediments Recovered by DSDP/IPOD Leg 75 from under the Benguela Current Organic Geochemistry of Sediments Recovered by DSDP/IPOD Leg 75 from under the Benguela Current

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Authors
P.A. Meyers, S. Brassell, A.Y. Huc, E.J. Barron, R.E. Boyce, Walter E. Dean, W.W. Hayes, Barbara H. Keating, C.L. McNulty, R.E. Schallreuter, Jean-Claude Sibuet, J.C. Steinmetz, D.A.V. Stow, Herbert Stradner

Opening of the Red Sea: Constraints from a palaeomagnetic study of the As Sarat volcanic field, south‐western Saudi Arabia Opening of the Red Sea: Constraints from a palaeomagnetic study of the As Sarat volcanic field, south‐western Saudi Arabia

Four stratigraphic sections through alkali basalt flows of Oligocene to Miocene age (29‐24 Ma) in the As Sarat volcanic field, south‐western Saudi Arabia, were sampled for palaeomagnetic study. After systematic alternating‐field demagnetization, 42 magnetically acceptable flows (139 samples) yield a mean direction of magnetization of =355.3°, =15.2° (α=4.3°), which defines a...
Authors
Karl S. Kellogg, R. L. Reynolds

Geologic evolution of Hess Rise, central North Pacific Ocean Geologic evolution of Hess Rise, central North Pacific Ocean

Cores from four Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP) sites (310, 464, 465, and 466) and seismic-reflection profiles provide data that are used to interpret the geological evolution and paleoenvironments of Hess Rise, a prominent oceanic plateau in the central North Pacific Ocean. Hess Rise apparently formed in the Southern Hemisphere along the western flank of the Pacific-Farallon Ridge 110...
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T. L. Vallier, Walter E. Dean, David K. Rea, Jorn Thiede

The chemical composition of lakes in the north‐central United States The chemical composition of lakes in the north‐central United States

Lake waters of the north‐central U.S.A. are classified into five groups, based on increasing specific conductivity and changes in ionic composition from east to west, from Wisconsin through Minnesota to North and South Dakota. The most dilute group of waters has specific conductivities
Authors
Eville Gorham, Walter E. Dean, J.E. Sanger

Continuous subaqueous deposition of the Permian Castile evaporites, Delaware Basin, Texas and New Mexico Continuous subaqueous deposition of the Permian Castile evaporites, Delaware Basin, Texas and New Mexico

Structures that are common in the Castile Formation (Ochoan) of the Delaware Basin, Texas and New Mexico (Fig. 1) include fine planar laminations, breccias, microfolded laminae, and nodular anhydrite. These structures, particularly the laminae, have been used to demonstrate the subaqueous depositional history of the Castile (Anderson and Kirkland, 1966; Anderson et al., 1972; Dean et al...
Authors
Walter E. Dean, Roger Anderson
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