Data file : sediments of the East Atlantic continental margin, northwest Africa : sample collection and analysis

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1976-06Author
Briggs, Scott R.
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Summerhayes, Colin P.
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Milliman, John D.
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https://hdl.handle.net/1912/9444Location
Eastern Atlantic Continental MarginDOI
10.1575/1912/9444Keyword
SedimentsAbstract
The petrology, provenance, and history of sediments
from the continental shelf and upper continental slope of
western Africa have been studied in some detail by scientists
from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution as part of a
long-term investigation of the marine geology of the Eastern
Atlantic Continental Margin (funded by the National Science
Foundation through the Office of the International Decade
of Ocean Exploration in a grant to Dr. K.O. Emery- GX-28193).
In this data file we present the analytical data and other
information relating to all of the readily available
samples (1178) of sediment from northwestern Africa (off
the coasts of Morocco and what was recently called Spanish
Sahara). These data have been described and interpreted
in a recent article in the scientific literature (Summerhayes
and others, 1976). The data file contains sample locations,
shipboard descriptions, size data, sand fraction composition,
clay mineral composition, carbonate assemblage, and carbonate,
nitrogen, and carbon contents. The object of the data file
is to make these data readily available to other research
groups interested in African margin sediments.
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Briggs, S. R., Summerhayes, C. P., & Milliman, J. D. (1976). Data file: sediments of the East Atlantic continental margin, northwest Africa: sample collection and analysis. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. https://doi.org/10.1575/1912/9444Related items
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