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Science 2 October 1964:
Vol. 146. no. 3640, pp. 55 - 56
DOI: 10.1126/science.146.3640.55
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Clay- and Carbonate-Accumulation Rates in Three South Atlantic Deep-Sea Cores

Karl K. Turekian 1 and Minze Stuiver 1

1 Department of Geology and Radiocarbon Laboratory, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

Three South Atlantic deep sea cores have been dated by the carbon-14 technique, and rates of accumulation of clay and calcium carbonate have been determined. The highest eupelagic clay rates for the Atlantic found to date are in the Argentine Basin, and the lowest are on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.

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