Heavy and light minerals in turbidites from DSDP Hole 19-183, the Aleutian abyssal plain

• Main Author: Stewart, Richard J
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 1976
• Subjects: 19-183; Deep Sea Drilling Project; DRILL; Drilling/drill rig; DSDP; Glomar Challenger; Leg19; North Pacific/PLAIN; Gulf of Alaska; Pacific; Kodiak; Alaska
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.721042; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.721042

The Aleutian abyssal plain is a fossil abyssal plain of Paleogene age in the western Gulf of Alaska. The plain is a large, southward-thinning turbidite apron now cut off from sediment sources by the Aleutian Trench. Turbidite sedimentation ceased about 30 m.y. ago, and the apron is now buried under...