Planktonic foraminifera in sediments of the Ibero-Moroccan Continental Margin

• Main Author: Thiede, Jörn
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 1971
• Subjects: Atlantische Kuppenfahrten 1967/1-3; Cape Blanc/Meteor Bank/Portugal; GIK/IfG; Institute for Geosciences; Christian Albrechts University; Kiel; KAL; Kasten corer; M8; M8_016-2; M8_017-2; M8_057-2; M8_058-2; M8_066-2; M8/16-2 M8016B; M8017B; M8057B; M8058B; M8066B; Meteor (1964); North Atlantic Ocean; North Atlantic; Planktonic foraminifera
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.548409; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.548409

Recent clays cover the East Atlantic continental slopes. They are gray and poor in sand off Portugal (Cape Sines), but reddish brown to reddish gray and richer in sand off Morocco (Cape Mazagan). The majority of the 19 sediment cores, which were taken mainly on two profiles (Fig. 3), can be correlat...