Hiscott, Richard N. et al. (1997): Turbidity-current overspill from the Amazon Channel; texture of the silt/sand load, paleoflow from anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility and implications for flow processes

Leg/Site/Hole:
ODP 155
Identifier:
2000-004934
georefid

10.2973/odp.proc.sr.155.202.1997
doi

Creator:
Hiscott, Richard N.
Memorial University of Newfoundland, Earth Sciences Department, St. John's, NL, Canada
author

Hall, Frank R.
Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada
author

Pirmez, Carlos
Ocean Drilling Program, College Station, TX, United States
author

Identification:
Turbidity-current overspill from the Amazon Channel; texture of the silt/sand load, paleoflow from anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility and implications for flow processes
1997
In: Flood, Roger D., Piper, David J. W., Klaus, Adam, Burns, Stephen J., Busch, William H., Cisowski, Stanley M., Cramp, Adrian, Damuth, John E., Goni, Miguel A., Haberle, Simon G., Hall, Frank R., Hinrichs, Kai-Uwe, Hiscott, Richard N., Kowsmann, Renato O., Kronen, John D., Jr., Long, David, Lopez, Michel, McDaniel, Diane K., Manley, Patricia L., Maslin, Mark A., Mikkelsen, Naja, Nanayama, Futoshi, Normark, William R., Pirmez, Carlos, dos Santos, Jose Ricardo, Schneider, Ralph R., Showers, William J., Soh, Wonn, Thibal, Jerome, Fox, Georgia L. (editor), Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program; scientific results, Amazon Fan; covering Leg 155 of the cruises of the drilling vessel JOIDES Resolution, Bridgetown, Barbados, to Bridgetown, Barbados, sites 930-946, 25 March-24 May 1994
Texas A & M University, Ocean Drilling Program, College Station, TX, United States
155
53-78
English
Coverage:Geographic coordinates:
North:6.5701
West:-49.0528East: -46.3759
South:4.3544

Oceanography; Amazon Channel; Amazon Fan; Amazon River; anisotropy; Atlantic Ocean; bathymetry; clastic sediments; currents; grain size; Leg 155; magnetic susceptibility; marine sedimentation; North Atlantic; Ocean Drilling Program; sand; Seabeam; sedimentary structures; sedimentation; sediments; silt; South America; submarine fans; turbidite; turbidity currents;

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