Interstitial water studies on small core samples, Deep Sea Drilling Project: Leg 10
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Abstract
Leg 10 interstitial water analyses provide new indications of the distribution of rock salt beneath the floor of the Gulf of Mexico, both confirming areas previously indicated to be underlain by salt bodies and extending evidence of salt distribution to seismically featureless areas in the Sigsbee Knolls trend and Isthmian Embayment. The criterion for presence of salt at depth is a consistent increase in interstitial salinity and chlorinity with depth.
Site 86, on the northern margin of the Yucatan Platform, provided no evidence of salt at depth. Thus, our data tend to rule out the suggestion of Antoine and Bryant (1969) that the Sigsbee Knolls salt was squeezed out from beneath the Yucatan Scarp. Cores from Sites 90 and 91, in the central Sigsbee Deep, were not obtained from a great enough depth to yield definite evidence for the presence of buried salt.
Site 86, on the northern margin of the Yucatan Platform, provided no evidence of salt at depth. Thus, our data tend to rule out the suggestion of Antoine and Bryant (1969) that the Sigsbee Knolls salt was squeezed out from beneath the Yucatan Scarp. Cores from Sites 90 and 91, in the central Sigsbee Deep, were not obtained from a great enough depth to yield definite evidence for the presence of buried salt.
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| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | Interstitial water studies on small core samples, Deep Sea Drilling Project: Leg 10 |
| Series title | Initial reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project |
| DOI | 10.2973/dsdp.proc.10.121.1973 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Year Published | 1973 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Management International |
| Publisher location | College Station, TX |
| Contributing office(s) | Coastal and Marine Geology Program, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center |
| Description | 9 p. |
| First page | 615 |
| Last page | 623 |
| Other Geospatial | Gulf Of Mexico |
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