. The Earth beneath the sea : History. Ocean bottom; Marine geophysics. «. lliije Fig. 5. Electron micrograph of halloysite tubes I'roni the core Capricorn BG 9, 19° Ol'S, 177° 46'E. (By courtesy of Shell Development Corporation, Houston, Texas.) 1958) found a rather uniform rate of build-up of the sea floor in the South Pacific of mni'/lO^ years, whereas values of the rate of sedimentation in the North Pacific vary between and 10 mm/lO^ years with an overall average around 1-2 mm/lO^ years. These rates of accumulation are for the non-calcareous components of the deposits. Detrital qua
. The Earth beneath the sea : History. Ocean bottom; Marine geophysics. «. lliije Fig. 5. Electron micrograph of halloysite tubes I'roni the core Capricorn BG 9, 19° Ol'S, 177° 46'E. (By courtesy of Shell Development Corporation, Houston, Texas.) 1958) found a rather uniform rate of build-up of the sea floor in the South Pacific of mni'/lO^ years, whereas values of the rate of sedimentation in the North Pacific vary between and 10 mm/lO^ years with an overall average around 1-2 mm/lO^ years. These rates of accumulation are for the non-calcareous components of the deposits. Detrital quartz attains values of 25% by weight in sediments from the mid- ocean North Pacific and falls off" in concentration toward polar and equatorial. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Hill, M. N. (Maurice Neville), 1919-. New York : Interscience Pub.
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