SUBJECT INDEX 



947 



Sasin sedimentation and diagenesis — con- 

 tinued 

 subsurface waters, 604 ff 

 water circulation and renewal, 583 ff 

 Bassin algero-proven(^al. 299 

 Batabano, Gulf of, 566 ff, 570, 574 

 Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans, Murray's 



General, 233, 411 

 Bathyscaphs, 416. 419, 437, 473 

 Bayous, 630 

 Beach and nearshore processes, 507 (see 



also other headings under Sedimentation) 

 auto-suspension, 518 ff 

 avalanches under bed load, 518 ff 

 bed disturbance threshold, 525 ff 

 bed drag theory, 523 

 bed load theory, 516 

 boimdary stress near bed, 516, 527 

 classification by origin, 507 

 definition of sedimentation, 507 

 dynamic transport rate, 545 

 energy profile, energy loss frona bed 



friction, 530 ff 

 fall or settling velocity, 508 

 flow of granular solids dispersed within 



fluids, 510 

 fluid power available, 515 ff 

 friction factor or coefficient, friction 



angle, 510 

 littoral processes, 529 



mechanics of marine sedimentation, 507 

 model experiments : see index entries 



directly loider this 

 oscillations of water under surface waves, 



518, 527 ff 

 permeability and sand size, 531 

 ripples, 539 ff 



sand : see index entries directly under this 

 shoreline forms, 547 ff 

 steady unidirectional flow, 525 ff 

 symbols, 550 ff 

 thermal properties, 222 ff, 226 

 thicknesses, 110 



three-dimensional littoral processes, 540 ff 

 transport during fall through sea, 508 ff 

 transport over sea bed, 509, 513 ff 

 transport rate and fluid "power", 512 ff 

 turbulent boundary layer, 527 

 turbulent suspension, 519 ff 

 two-dimensional littoral processes, 530 ff 

 ■waves : see index entries directly under this 

 work done in transporting a bed load , 5 1 2 ff 

 work done in transporting a suspended 



load, 517 ff 

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Bear Island, 306, 399 



Beata Ridge, 331 



Beaufort Sea, 281, 646, 649 



Belle Isle, 284 



Bellinghausen Abyssal Plain, 326 



Bengal, Bay of, 326, 342 



Benin, Gulf of, 628 



Benthic fauna (see also under Microtopo- 



graphy), 589, 721, 866 

 Bering Sea, 251 ff, 333, 402, 414 

 Bermuda Rise, 63, 164, 207 ff, 256, 258 ff, 



265, 269, 315 ff, 336, 347, 350 ff, 445 

 Betsiboka estuary, 623 

 Bikini Atoll, 97, 375 ff, 380 ff, 383, 



568 ff 

 Bills Bailey Bank, 282 

 Biogenous sediment, 507, 662 

 Bioherms, 688 

 Birdfoot Delta, 494 

 Biscay, Bay of, 206, 318 ff, 344 ff, 361, 442, 



638, 642 ff, 648 

 Black Sea, 590 ff, 593, 599, 603 

 Black shales, 822 



Blake-Bahama Abyssal Plain, 249 

 Blake-Bahama Basin, 245 

 Blake Escarpment, 237, 249, 287, 294 

 Blake Plateau, 245 ff, 248, 281, 765, 



812 ff 

 Bomb-sovinding, 415 ff 

 Bogota, Colombia, 899 

 Bonaparte Gulf, 297 ff 

 Bonin, 414, 420 

 Boomer, 59 

 Boron, 680, 700 

 Bothnia, Gulf of, 587 

 Braarudospheres, 868 

 Brahmaputra, 326 

 Brazil, 245, 248, 318, 321, 689 

 Breunnerite, 691 

 British Isles, 304 

 Brittany, 282 ff, 286, 291 ff, 620 ff, 626 ff, 



635 ,644 ff, 648 

 Browse depression, 298 

 Bryozoa, 459 

 Butley Crag strata, 893 

 Buzzards Bay, 64 



Cables : see Submarine cables 

 Cadiz, Gulf of, 812 

 Calabria, 902 

 Calabrian fauna, 891 

 Calcareous deposits, 711, 867 

 Calcic plagioclase, 669 

 Calcite, 683, 688, 691 



