24. LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY AND CLAY MINERALOGY OF THE WESTERN MARGIN OF THE ROCKALL PLATEAU AND THE HATTON SEDIMENT DRIFT1

• Main Authors: Herman B. Zimmerman, Union College
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Greenland; Norwegian Sea; Rockall Plateau; Greenland-Scotland Ridge; North Atlantic; Northeast Atlantic
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.503.769; http://www.deepseadrilling.org/81/volume/dsdp81_24.pdf

Learning more about the history of oceanic sedimentation and its relationship to the development of abyssal circula-tion in the northeastern Atlantic was a major objective of Leg 81 drilling. Accordingly, sites were situated on an East-West traverse across the southwestern margin of Rockall Plateau...