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Science 7 January 1972:
Vol. 175. no. 4017, pp. 61 - 63
DOI: 10.1126/science.175.4017.61
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Iron-Rich Basal Sediments from the Eastern Equatorial Pacific: Leg 16, Deep Sea Drilling Project

D. S. Cronan 1, T. H. Van Andel 2, G. Ross Heath 2, M. G. Dinkelman 2, R. H. Bennett 3, David Bukry 4, Santiago Charleston 5, Ansis Kaneps 6, K. S. Rodolfo 7, and R. S. Yeats 8

1 Department of Geology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa 2, Ontario, Canada
2 Department of Oceanography, Oregon State University, Corvallis 97331
3 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Atlantic Oceanographic Meteorological Laboratory, Miami, Florida 33130
4 U. S. Geological Survey, La Jolla, California 92037
5 Mexican Petroleum Institute, Mexico 14, D. F., Mexico
6 Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California 92037
7 Department of Geology, University of Illinois, Chicago 61680
8 Department of Geology, Ohio University, Athens 45701

Iron-rich sediments chemically similar to those forming at present on the crest of the East Pacific Rise have been found just above basement at widely separated drill sites in the eastern equatorial Pacific, including three sites of Leg 16 of the Deep Sea Drilling Project. These sediments were probably formed when the basement was at the crest of this rise and have moved to their present location as a result of sea-floor spreading.


THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
East Pacific Rise: Hot Springs and Geophysical Experiments.
F. N. Spiess, F. N. Spiess, K. C. Macdonald, T. Atwater, R. Ballard, A. Carranza, D. Cordoba, C. Cox, V. M. D. Garcia, J. Francheteau, et al. (1980)
Science 207, 1421-1433
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