Subject Index
abyssal, definition 43, 64
storms 123, 124
abyssal hills 25
abyssal plains 20, 43
nature of 66
illustration 17, 66
acantharians 329
accretionary prism 53, 54
accumulation rates 94
acoustic reflectors 234ff
acoustic swath-mapping 305
Acropora 136, 164,246,331
active margins 45, 51
Adriatic Sea 94, 152
Aegean Sea
volcanism 74
African Rift Valley 46
age of sea floor 36
age of bottom water 234
age-depth curve, equation 23ff
and sea level 150
agglutinating forams 174
aggregates 157, 187, 220
air gun profiling 57, 59
Albatross see Swedish Deep Sea Expedition
albedo 243, 244
feedback 253
-and regression 260
Aleutian Trench 25
algal carbonate 164
production of 163, 164
algal mats 88, 90, 134
alkali metals 258
alkalinity 73, 89
alkenones 165,212
allochthons 70
Alvin 182, 183
amphibolites 53
Amphiura (brittle star) 181
community 182
anaerobic conditions 89, 125, 159, 161, 166
anaerobic sediments 77, 118, 206
Adriatic Sea 94
upwelling 118, 119
Baltic Sea 204, 205
Andes, ore deposits in 51,52
andesites 28, 320
Angola Basin 121
Angola cont. margin 48, 49
anhydrite 90, 319
hydrothermal 295, 296
annual layers (varves) 93, 94, 209
anoxic events
Cretaceous ocean 271
and volcanism 273
Antarctic
Bottom Water (AABW) 120 ff
Circumpolar Current 123, 259
Intermed. Water (AAIW) 121
icebergs 186
ice-rafted debris 264
anti-estuarine circulation 124, 125,202,203,
207
apatite, formula 319
Aptian (= epoch within Cretaceous)
salt 49
volcanism 274
Arabian Sea 125
oxygen minimum 271
aragonite 86, 194, 319
in organic hard parts 83
needles 86
calcite ratio
and temperature 194
formula 319
archaeobacteria 327
arctic environments 200
Arenicola (burrowing worm) 131, 172, 173,
177, 330, 331
Argentine Basin 121
arid basins 201 ff
arid climate 90
arkose, definition 321
arthropods 331