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Deep-Sea Sediments - Patterns, Processes, and Stratigraphic Methods
W Cloy 01' no deposil .~iFj Colcoreous Ool' ~ SiliceousOoze OShell and Slope [)tIJOSiIs GOeep Sec Muds. Glaciol Oebrl,
Fig. 8.2. Sediment cover of the deep-sea floor. The chief sediment types or facies are pelagic clay
and calcareous ooze. [w. H. Berger, 1974, in C. A. Burk. C. L. Drake (eds) The geology of
continental margins. Springer, Heidelberg)
Fig. 8.3. Shell-bearing planktonic organisms. Clockwise from IIpper left Siliceous diatom (x 600) ,
centric warm-water fonn; siliceous radiolarian (x 180); calcareous warm-water foraminifer Glohigerilloides sacclllifer (x 55); tropical subsurface foraminifer Glohorota/ia menardii (x 28): organicwalled tintinnid (x 480): calcareous coccolithophore (x 2100) with interlocking platelets ("coccoliths"). [Diatom microphoto by H.-J . Schrader; all others: SEM photos by C. Sam tie ben and U.Pflaumann]
Deep-Sea Sediments - Patterns, Processes, and Stratigraphic Methods
W Cloy 01' no deposil .~iFj Colcoreous Ool' ~ SiliceousOoze OShell and Slope [)tIJOSiIs GOeep Sec Muds. Glaciol Oebrl,
Fig. 8.2. Sediment cover of the deep-sea floor. The chief sediment types or facies are pelagic clay
and calcareous ooze. [w. H. Berger, 1974, in C. A. Burk. C. L. Drake (eds) The geology of
continental margins. Springer, Heidelberg)
Fig. 8.3. Shell-bearing planktonic organisms. Clockwise from IIpper left Siliceous diatom (x 600) ,
centric warm-water fonn; siliceous radiolarian (x 180); calcareous warm-water foraminifer Glohigerilloides sacclllifer (x 55); tropical subsurface foraminifer Glohorota/ia menardii (x 28): organicwalled tintinnid (x 480): calcareous coccolithophore (x 2100) with interlocking platelets ("coccoliths"). [Diatom microphoto by H.-J . Schrader; all others: SEM photos by C. Sam tie ben and U.Pflaumann]