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MRNIDX - Marine Data Index: Database Description, Operation, Retrieval, and Display MRNIDX - Marine Data Index: Database Description, Operation, Retrieval, and Display

A database referencing the location and content of data stored on magnetic medium was designed to assist in the indexing of time-series and spatially dependent marine geophysical data collected or processed by the U. S. Geological Survey. The database was designed and created for input to the Geologic Retrieval and Synopsis Program (GRASP) to allow selective retrievals of information...
Authors
Valerie F. Paskevich

A new instrument for sampling flocculent material at the water/sediment interface A new instrument for sampling flocculent material at the water/sediment interface

We have designed an instrument to collect fine-grained and flocculent material from the water/sediment interface for chemical and mineralogical analysis. The sampler can be used from a manned research submersible or by a diver in shallow water. In areas of active deposition, the material collected represents the most recently deposited sediment. This material is of interest for...
Authors
Michael H. Bothner, Page C. Valentine

Holocene sedimentation in the shallow nearshore zone off Nauset Inlet, Cape Cod, Massachusetts Holocene sedimentation in the shallow nearshore zone off Nauset Inlet, Cape Cod, Massachusetts

Present conditions and sedimentary evolution of the shallow offshore region near Nauset Inlet on Cape Cod, Massachusetts were clarified using high-resolution seismic-reflection profiles, sidescan-sonar records, surface grab samples and current meter measurements. The study area contains three provinces: (1) a nearshore province (shallower than 18 m) with a relatively steep slope (0.6°)...
Authors
D.G. Aubrey, D.C. Twichell, S.L. Pfirman

Sedimentation of lithogenic particles in the deep ocean Sedimentation of lithogenic particles in the deep ocean

Investigation of lithogenic particles collected by sediment traps in open-ocean stations revealed that the sediment flux increased linearly with depth in the water column. This rate of increase decreased with distance of the station from the continent; it was largest at the Panama Basin station and almost negligible at the E. Hawaii Abyssal Plain station. At the Panama Basin station...
Authors
S. Honjo, S.J. Manganini, L. J. Poppe

Atlantic continental margin of the United States Atlantic continental margin of the United States

The objective of this Decade of North American Geology (D-NAG) volume will be to focus on the Mesozoic and Cenozoic evolution of the U.S. Atlantic continental margin, including the onshore coastal plain, related onshore Triassic-Jurassic rift grabens, and the offshore basins and platforms. Following multiple compressional tectonic episodes between Africa and North America during the...
Authors
John A. Grow, Robert E. Sheridan

The memory of the accreting plate boundary and the continuity of fracture zones The memory of the accreting plate boundary and the continuity of fracture zones

A detailed aeromagnetic anomaly map of the Mesozoic seafloor-spreading lineations southwest of Bermuda reveals the dominant magnetic grain of the oceanic crust and the character of the accreting boundary at the time of crustal formation. The magnetic anomaly pattern is that of a series of elongate lobes perpendicular to the fracture zone (flowline) trends. The linear sets of magnetic...
Authors
Hans Schouten, Kim D. Klitgord

Oscillation of continental shelf sediments caused by waves Oscillation of continental shelf sediments caused by waves

No abstract available.
Authors
J. N. Suhayda, J. M. Coleman, Thomas Whelan, L. E. Garrison
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