Sohm Abyssal Plain: Evaluating Proximal Sediment Provenance

• Main Authors: Stanely, Daniel Jean, Taylor, Patrick T., Sheng, Harrison, Stuckenrath, Robert
• Language: unknown
• Published: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press 1981
• Subjects: Sohm; Northwest Atlantic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10088/22482

The southernmost part of the Sohm Abyssal Plain in the Northwest Atlantic Basin is geographically distal with respect to the major source of Quaternary terrigenous material transported from the Canadian Maritime Provinces. An assessment of the proportion of more locally introduced sediment relative...