Benthic foraminifera of surface sediments from the continental slope off Sierra Leone, North-West Africa

• Main Authors: Zobel, B, Ranke, Ulrich
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 1978
• Subjects: BC; Box corer; M30; M30_146; M30_147; M30_181; M30_183; M30_185; M30_186; M30_187; M30_204; M30_205; M30_206; M30_207; M30_208; M30_209; M30_230; M30_232; M30_262; M30_263; M30_264; M30_327; M30_329; Meteor (1964); North Atlantic Ocean; PC; Piston corer; Westafrika 1973; North Atlantic; Planktonic foraminifera
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.548464; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.548464

On "Meteor" cruise 30 (1973) 22 piston-cores were collected off Sierra Leone from water-depths between about 5000 m (Sierra Leone Basin) and 500 m (upper continental slope) with the objective to study the sediment composition and age as well as processes of sedimentation on the continental...