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Science 21 May 1976:
Vol. 192. no. 4241, pp. 785 - 787
DOI: 10.1126/science.192.4241.785
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Deep-Sea Carbonates: Dissolution and Mass Wasting on Ontong-Java Plateau

W. H. BERGER 1 and T. C. JOHNSON 2

1 Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla 92037
2 Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455

Seismic reflection profiles and the structure of sediments in box cores from Ontong-Java Plateau indicate large-scale land sliding and sediment flow processes, respectively. The topographic morphology of sliding and slumping is depth- dependent, suggesting control by dissolution processes.

Submitted on December 29, 1975
Revised on February 17, 1976


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