UNITED STATES NAVAL OCEANOGRAPHIC OFFICE MARINE GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY PROGRAM 1965-1967, NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN, NORWEGIAN SEA AND MEDITERRANEAN SEA. AREA 6 - VOLUME 5. GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS.

• Other Authors: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC DALLAS SCIENCE SERVICES DIV
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1967
• Subjects: Physical and Dynamic Oceanography; Seismology; (*MARINE GEOPHYSICS; MEDITERRANEAN SEA); BATHYTHERMOGRAPH DATA; REFLECTIVITY; SEISMIC WAVES; OCEAN BOTTOM TOPOGRAPHY; SEDIMENTATION; UNDERWATER PHOTOGRAPHY; ECHO RANGING; PETROLOGY; MARINE GEOLOGY; WAVE PROPAGATION; THICKNESS; CLAY; SAND; SILT; MAPPING; MAPS; ATLANTIC SEAL VESSEL; CORE SAMPLING; IONIAN SEA; SEDIMENTS; Norwegian Sea; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0824564; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0824564

The analysis of 13,000 mi of continuously recorded bathymetric and seismic data in the Mediterranean Sea indicates a considerably different physiography and sediment distribution in its western and eastern segments. Seismic reflection profiling indicates much thicker accumulations of sediment in the Western Mediterranean than in the tectonically active Eastern Mediterranean. In the Balearic Basin, abyssal hills previously interpreted as salt domes have been identified in the subsurface, smoothed by sedimentation, over a large region in the Balearic Sea. Bottom photographs taken in the Ionian Sea by the ATLANTIC SEAL reveal outcrops of an indurated or consolidated sediment on the Mediterranean Ridge, indicating tectonic activity of the redge or lack of accumulation of sediments for a considerable length of time. (Author) Includes 2 packets of charts. See also Area 6, Volume 4 dated 11 Sep 67, AD-385 506L.