. The Earth beneath the sea : History. Ocean bottom; Marine geophysics. NAUTICAL MILES Fig. 1. Cable breaks and sediment cores located on the topographic profile south of the Cabot Strait, with superimposed graph of velocity of the Grand Banks turbidity current. (After Heezen and Ewing, 1952.). EXPLANATION • •• PISTON CORE STATIONS ATLANTIS CRUISE A180 SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH CABLES AREA OF SLIDES AND SLUMPS NEAR EPICENTER AREA TRAVELLED BY DESTRUCTIVE TURBIDITY CURRENT. CABLES BROKEN AND REMOVED MARGINAL AREA OF WEAKER CURRENT. CABLES BURIED BUT NOT BROKEN + + + 100 FATHOM CONTOUR ABYSSAL PLAIN H
. The Earth beneath the sea : History. Ocean bottom; Marine geophysics. NAUTICAL MILES Fig. 1. Cable breaks and sediment cores located on the topographic profile south of the Cabot Strait, with superimposed graph of velocity of the Grand Banks turbidity current. (After Heezen and Ewing, 1952.). EXPLANATION • •• PISTON CORE STATIONS ATLANTIS CRUISE A180 SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH CABLES AREA OF SLIDES AND SLUMPS NEAR EPICENTER AREA TRAVELLED BY DESTRUCTIVE TURBIDITY CURRENT. CABLES BROKEN AND REMOVED MARGINAL AREA OF WEAKER CURRENT. CABLES BURIED BUT NOT BROKEN + + + 100 FATHOM CONTOUR ABYSSAL PLAIN HILLS AND MOUNTAINS. BERMUDA RISE, WESTERN FOOTHILLS OF THE MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE Fig. 2. Map of the 1929 Grand Banks turbidity current. (After Heezen, Ericson and Ewing, 1954.). 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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