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Science 20 October 1967:
Vol. 158. no. 3799, pp. 370 - 372
DOI: 10.1126/science.158.3799.370
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Geological Exploration in an East Coast Submarine Canyon from a Research Submersible

James V. A. Trumbull 1 and Marvin J. McCamis 2

1 U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543
2 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts

Large talus blocks litter the flat floor of Oceanographer Canyon at a depth of 1460 meters; they indicate down-axis mass transport of floor sediment at an unknown time and rate. From 1460 to 1310 meters the sidewall is covered by unconsolidated sediment lying at 35° to 40° from the horizontal. An outcrop of Pleistocene or younger sediment at 1460 meters is probably a remnant of a former fill.


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