Mineral concentration in sediment core HU92045-11P

• Main Authors: Hiscott, Richard N, Aksu, Ali E
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 1996
• Subjects: Calcite; Calculated from weight loss on acidification (GF/F filtered); DEPTH; sediment/rock; Dolomite; HU92045-11P; Kalifeldspar; PC; Piston corer; Plagioclase; Quartz; X-ray diffraction (XRD); Barents Sea; Norway; Northeast Newfoundland Shelf; Newfoundland
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.754856; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.754856

The continental slope in Orphan Basin, northeast of Newfoundland, is underlain by several seaward-thinning debris-flow wedges alternating with acoustically stratified, regionally extensive, mainly hemipelagic sediments. d18O stratigraphy and volcanic ash layers in a 11.67-m core indicate that the up...