SUBJECT INDEX 



949 



Continental shelf and slope (continental 

 margin ) — cont inued 



structure and origins, 290 ff, 428 



subsiding type, 293 ff 



tidal scour, 293 



topography, 282 ff 

 Continental stratigraphy, 890 ff 

 Continuous recording: see Echo-sounders 

 Continuous reflection profiling, 47 



conclusions, 71 



data-processing techniques, 54 



design, 50 ff 



geological interpretation, 70 



geophysical interpretations, 67 ff 



geophysical measurements, 70 ff 



graphic recorders, 48, 54 ff 



inland waters, comparative data, 57 ff 



intermediate depths and deep ocean 

 studies, 59 



results, 56 



sea operations, 56 



sub-bottom echoes, 48 

 Cook Island, 367 

 Copper, 688 

 Coqumas, 866 

 Corals, 459, 659, 822 

 Core growth of the Earth, 888 

 Coring stations, examples, 836 

 Corinth, Gulf of, 329 

 Coronado Submarine Canyon, 484 

 Corsica, 293, 299, 488 ff, 501 

 Coscinodiscus nodidifer, 710 

 Cosmic dust, 847, 856 

 Cosmic rays 



energy from, 852 



producing radio-nuclides, 816 



unimportant for synthesis of organic 

 compounds, 856 

 Cosmic sediment, 507, 674 

 Costa Rica, 331 

 Cotentin, 293 

 Crawford R.V., 393, 404 

 Creep hj^pothesis for cable breaks, 751 

 Cretaceous planktonic Foraminifera, 872 

 Crete, 253 



Cromwell Current, 708 



Cross-correlation of deep-sea sediment cores 

 and determination of relative rates of 

 sedimentation by micropaleontological 

 techniques, 832, 878 ff, 916 ff 



equatorial suite of cores, 837 ff 



examples, 836 ff 



methods, 832 ff 



time equivalence of faunal zones, 835 ff 



Crotone, 902 



Crozet Plateau, 276 



Crozon Peninsula, 286 



Cruiser Seamount, 320 



Crustaceans, 446 



Crustal rocks, 85 



average oceanic crust, 101 

 Eastern North Atlantic, 95 

 Eastern North Pacific, 96 

 Indian Ocean, 98 

 layering of, 5, 92 ff, 95 ff, 98 ff 

 Mid-Oceanic Ridge, 404 ff 

 oceanic refraction profiles, 85 

 South Pacific, 98 

 surface waves, 121 ff 

 thickness uniformity, 110 

 trenches, 423 



Western North Atlantic, 92 ff 

 Western North Pacific, 97 



Cuba, 332, 562 ff, 571, 574 



Cyanophyceae, 291 



Cyclothems, 621 



Cymodoceae, 641 



Dahomey, 300 ff, 624, 628 

 Dakar, 405 

 Davis Sea, 286 

 Declination, magnetic, 175 

 Deep-focus earthquakes, 413, 422 

 Deep sea {see also tinder Abyssal plains and 

 under Microtopography) 



Cenozoic cores, temperature analysis, 908 



channels and fans, 337 ff 



erosion and transportation, 764 ff 



fauna, benthic, 589, 721 



fossils, 866 ff 



Pleistocene sedimentation, 837 ff 



sand, 348, 499 ff 



stratigraj^hy, 903 ff 

 Deep trenches : see Trenches 

 Deformation of ocean floor, 718 

 Delgada Canyon, 501 

 Deltas, 629 ff 



Demerara Abyssal Plain, 318 

 Denitrification, 600 

 Denmark, 620, 635, 768 

 Denticula marina, 877 

 Depth recorders, 235 



Diagenesis in sediments, 593 ff {see index 

 entries under Basin sedimentation 

 and diagenesis) 

 Diatoms, 692, 693, 710, 713, 761, 768, 868, 

 879 



