. The Earth beneath the sea : History . Po SSI hie. deap current d/rections durino f/e/uosct inttr^a/ of iv'artn cl/matiz F robolola daap currant directions durino last cjlaciation |4S0 m! l»r i bn. mi i?s Fig. 21. Location of cores A164-44 and 173-4 on the flank of the Muir Seamount, showing the interpretation of the data presented in Fig. 20. It is presumed that during the present warm period and during the previous period of warm climate, currents flowed northwest, parallel to the seamount. However, during the last glaciation, currents are presumed to have moved from the southwest to northe

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. The Earth beneath the sea : History . Po SSI hie. deap current d/rections durino f/e/uosct inttr^a/ of iv'artn cl/matiz F robolola daap currant directions durino last cjlaciation |4S0 m! l»r i bn. mi i?s Fig. 21. Location of cores A164-44 and 173-4 on the flank of the Muir Seamount, showing the interpretation of the data presented in Fig. 20. It is presumed that during the present warm period and during the previous period of warm climate, currents flowed northwest, parallel to the seamount. However, during the last glaciation, currents are presumed to have moved from the southwest to northeast, wimaowing material from the top and the flanks of the seamoimt, and depositing the finer material in the lee of the seamount on the northeast flank. This would account for the thick bed of fine sediments representing the last glaciation in core A173-4 and the thin, winnowed layer in core A164-44. (After Ericson and Heezen, 1959.)

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