170 THE OCEAN FLOOR 



6. I. Tolstoy, "Submarine Topography in the North Atlan- 

 tic," Bull. Geol. Soc. Am., 62 (1951), 441-50. 



Chapter 5. Recent Developments in the 

 Investigation of the Deep Ocean Floor 



1. B. C. Heezen and M. Ewing, "Turbidity Currents and Sub- 

 marine Slumps, and the 1929 Grand Banks Earthquake," 

 Am. Journ. Sc, 250 (1952), 849-73. Cf. refs. to Kuenen, 

 Chap. 9, n. 6. 



2. See M. N. Hill, "The Floor of the Atlantic Ocean," Na- 

 ture, 171 (1953), 857-60. This is a summary of the dis- 

 cussion of the subject before the Royal Society of London; 

 a complete report will appear in the Proceedings of the 

 Royal Society of London for 1954. 



Chapter 6. The Deep-Sea Deposits and 

 Their Stratigraphy 



1. J. D. H. Wiseman and H. Bennett, The Distribution of Or- 

 ganic Carbon and Nitrogen in Sediments from the Arabian 

 Sea, The John Murray Expedition, 1933-34, Scientific Re- 

 ports, 3, No. 4, London, 1940. 



2. P. W. Locher, "Kurzer Bericht Uber die sedimentpetro- 

 graphische Untersuchung zweier Lotkerne der Albatross- 

 Expedition," Heidelberger Beitrage zur Mineralogie und 

 Petrographie, 3 (1952), 193-218. Cf. Locher, "Ein Bei- 

 trag zum Problem der Tiefseesande im westlichen Teil des 

 aquatorialen Atlantiks," op. cit., 4 (1953), 135. 



3. O. Mellis, "Replacement of Plagioclase by Orthoclase in 

 Deep-Sea Deposits," Nature, 169 (1952), 624. 



4. O. Mellis, "The Coarse-Grained Horizons in the Deep-Sea 



