Geology of the Northwest African Continental Margin

Front Matter....Pages N2-XI
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Northwest African Continental Margin — An Introduction....Pages 3-20
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
Preliminary Results from DSDP Leg 79 Seaward of the Mazagan Plateau off Central Morocco....Pages 23-33
The Continental Margin of Morocco: Seismic Sequences, Structural Elements and Geological Development....Pages 34-60
Magnetic Anomalies in the Magnetic Quiet Zone off Morocco....Pages 61-68
Atlas and Atlantic — Structural Relations....Pages 69-85
Stratigraphy, Facies and Tectonic Development of the On- and Offshore Aaiun-Tarfaya Basin — A Review....Pages 86-105
Cretaceous-Cenozoic History of the West Saharan Continental Margin (NW Africa): Development, Destruction and Gravitational Sedimentation....Pages 106-131
Deep Seismic Structure (Mauritania and Central Morocco)....Pages 132-159
Stratigraphy and Structural Features of the Continental Margin Basin of Senegal and Mauritania....Pages 160-181
Bathymetry, Microphysiography and Reflectivity Characteristics of the West African Margin Between Sierra Leone and Mauritania....Pages 182-212
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Mesozoic-Cenozoic Development of the Eastern North American and Northwest African Continental Margins: A Comparison....Pages 215-269
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Volcanic and Chemical Evolution of the Canary Islands....Pages 273-306
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Cretaceous Foraminiferal and Nannoplankton Biostratigraphy and Paleoecology Along the West African Continental Margin....Pages 309-353
Cretaceous Radiolaria from the Northwest African Continental Margin....Pages 354-365
Cretaceous Stratigraphy, Environment, and Subsidence History at the Moroccan Continental Margin....Pages 366-395
Turonian Black Shales in the Moroccan Coastal Basins: First Upwelling in the Atlantic Ocean?....Pages 396-414
Cretaceous Coastline-Connected Mass Movements, Southern Morocco....Pages 415-426
Sedimentation in the Atlas Gulf I: Lower Cretaceous Clastics....Pages 427-438
Sedimentation in the Atlas Gulf II: Mid-Cretaceous Events....Pages 439-458
Sedimentation in the Atlas Gulf III: Turonian Carbonates....Pages 459-474
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Cretaceous Magnetic Stratigraphy of Southwest Morocco....Pages 475-497
Stratigraphy, Facies, and Significance of Late Mesozoic and Early Tertiary Sedimentary Rocks of Fuerteventura (Canary Islands) and Maio (Cape Verde Islands)....Pages 498-525
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Oligocene and Post-Oligocene History of Sedimentation and Climate off Northwest Africa (DSDP Site 369)....Pages 529-544
Atmospheric and Oceanic Circulation Patterns off Northwest Africa During the Past 25 Million Years....Pages 545-604
Late Quaternary Fluxes of Major Sediment Components to the Sea Floor at the Northwest African Continental Slope....Pages 605-631
Benthic Foraminifera: Depth Distribution and Redeposition....Pages 632-657
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Inorganic Geochemistry of Atlantic Ocean Sediments with Special Reference to Cretaceous Black Shales....Pages 661-685
Geochemistry and Petrography of Organic Matter in Northwest African Continental Margin Sediments: Quantity, Provenance, Depositional Environment and Temperature History....Pages 686-703
Back Matter....Pages 705-711