Composition of bottom sediments from the Guinea Basin

• Main Authors: Lavrov, Vadim M, Savel'yeva, K P
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 1971
• Subjects: Archive of Ocean Data; ARCOD; Grab; Gulf of Guinea; Mikhail Lomonosov; ML10; ML10_827; ML10_829; ML10_837; ML10_846; ML10_847; ML10_848; ML10_850; MULT; Multiple investigations
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.753701; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.753701

Geomorphology of the Guinea Basin is described along with sediments from cores collected on the abyssal plain, within the abyssal hill zone, and in the eastern part of the Chain Fracture Zone. Stratigraphic differentiation of deep-sea sediments was based on diatom analysis, geochemical and lithologi...