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Regional Clay Mineral Fades in Estuaries and Continental Margin of the United States East Coast

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This article is published in Geological Society of America Memoirs.The article was published on 1972-01-01. It has received 48 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Continental margin.

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From and migration of sand waves in a large estuary, Long Island Sound

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors observed the migration of sand waves by repeated bathymetric surveys and found a net sand flux greater than 0.01 cm 3 cm −1 sec −1 in the direction faced by the steep slopes of the waves (i.e., westward, into the Sound).
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Large-Scale Patterns in the Chemical Composition of Mississippian Pottery

TL;DR: Les analyses par activation neutronique de fragments ceramiques mississippiens provenant of 21 regions du sud-est americain ont revele l'existence of groupes chimiques distincts associes a quatre grandes regions geographiques as mentioned in this paper.
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Clay mineral formation in DSDP Leg 34 basalt

TL;DR: A blue-green smectite (iron-rich saponite) and green mica (celadonite) are the dominant sheet silicates in veins within the 10.5 m of basalt cored during DSDP Leg 34, Site 321, in the Nazca plate.
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Geotechnical properties of deep sea sediments: Bermuda rise

TL;DR: In this article, the Giant Piston Corer has been used to obtain good quality sediment samples from several sedimentological/acoustic regimes in the northwestern Atlantic, including calcareous ooze, pelagic brown clay, organic rich gray-green silty clay, and graded sand.
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Studies of deep-sea sedimentary microtopography in the North Atlantic Ocean

TL;DR: In this paper, the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WOWI) was presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree.