21. HEAVY MINERALS FROM PALEOGENE SEDIMENTS, DEEP SEA DRILLING PROJECT LEG 81: THEIR BEARING ON STRATIGRAPHY, SEDIMENT PROVENANCE, AND THE EVOLUTION OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC1

• Main Authors: Andrew C. Morton, British Geological Survey, Key Worth
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Greenland; Rockall Plateau
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.484.1124; http://www.deepseadrilling.org/81/volume/dsdp81_21.pdf

Five heavy mineral associations occur in the Paleocene and Eocene sediments recovered during Leg 81 of the Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP) in the SW Rockall area. Association 1, consisting of augite, iddingsite, and olivine, was derived from the basaltic rocks of the northern part of the Rockall Pl...