Accession Number:

AD0707341

Title:

GROWTH PATTERNS OF DEEP SEA FANS,

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

SCRIPPS INSTITUTION OF OCEANOGRAPHY SAN DIEGO CALIF MARINE PHYSICAL LAB

Personal Author(s):

• Normark,William Raymond

Report Date:

1969-12-01

Pagination or Media Count:

85.0

Abstract:

The growth pattern of a deep-sea fan relates events occurring in and around the fan-valleys to the structure and morphology of the open fan. The growth pattern cannot be determined without knowing the origin and recent history of the fan-valley system. The mapping of La Jolla and San Lucas deep-sea fans with the deep-towed instrument package developed at Marine Physical Laboratory of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography details the fine-scale morphology, structure, and internal fill of the fan-valleys and attempts to define the growth patterns of these fans. Author

Descriptors:

• (*OCEAN BOTTOM TOPOGRAPHY
• SEDIMENTATION)
• STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY
• DEEP WATER
• SAND
• GRAVEL
• DEPOSITS
• EROSION
• GEOLOGIC AGE DETERMINATION
• MAGNETIC ANOMALY DETECTION
• MARINE GEOPHYSICS
• CALIFORNIA

Subject Categories:

• Physical and Dynamic Oceanography
• Geology, Geochemistry and Mineralogy

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE