Leg 67: the Deep Sea Drilling Project Mid-America Trench transect off Guatemala.

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Drilling on the Cocos plate recovered a basal chalk sequence deposited during early and mid-Miocene time, a short interval of abyssal red clay, and an upper sequence of late Miocene and younger sediment deposited within an area influenced by a terrigenous source. In the trench, a mud and sand fill less than 400,000 yr old overlies the oceanic sequence. The entire section shows no evidence of compressive deformation. In contrast, the section cored on the trench's landward slope 3 km from the trench axis is affected by tectonism. The section contains a Cretaceous to Pliocene claystone sequence capped by Pliocene to Quaternary hemipelagic slope deposits.- from Authors
Publication type Article
Publication Subtype Journal Article
Title Leg 67: the Deep Sea Drilling Project Mid-America Trench transect off Guatemala.
Series title Geological Society of America Bulletin
DOI 10.1130/0016-7606(1980)91<421:LTDSDP>2.0.CO;2
Volume 91
Issue 7 pt 1
Year Published 1980
Language English
Publisher Geological Society of America
Larger Work Type Article
Larger Work Subtype Journal Article
Larger Work Title Geological Society of America Bulletin
First page 421
Last page 432
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