Ross, David A. (1973): Red Sea Drillings

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Identifier: ID:

1974-000025

Type:

georefid

Creator: Name:

Ross, David A.

Affiliation:

Role:

author

Identification: Title:

Red Sea Drillings

Year:

1973

Source:

Science

Publisher:

American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, DC, United States

Volume:

179

Issue:

4071

Pages:

377-380

Abstract:

Much of the Red Sea basin is underlain by evaporites of a similar age (late Miocene) to that of evaporites found in the Mediterranean Sea, the interstitial waters of the cores continuously increase in salinity with depth, the coincidence of brines with evaporate outcrop, occurrence of metalliferous shales

Language:

English

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Serial

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Coverage:Geographic coordinates:

	North:30.0000
West:34.0000		East: 43.0000
	South:10.0000

Keywords:

Oceanography; black shale; brines; Cenozoic; chemically precipitated rocks; clastic rocks; correlation; Deep Sea Drilling Project; depth; distribution; evaporites; geophysical methods; geophysical surveys; Indian Ocean; interpretation; interstitial; Leg 23B; lithostratigraphy; metals; Miocene; Neogene; ocean basins; oceanography; organic residues; pore water; Red Sea; regional; salinity; sedimentary rocks; sediments; seismic methods; surveys; Tertiary; upper Miocene;

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Ross, David A. (1973): Red Sea Drillings