k) Quaternary history and structure of New England 

 continental shelf „ 



5) Substructure of the Atlantic continental shelf , 



6) Sedimentary and diagenetic processes and provinces 

 of the Floridian shelf seas and adjacent water 

 areas o 



7) Syntheses of existing knowledge of world conti- 

 nental shelve s 



8) Ecology and biogeography of living and extinct 

 marine faunas important in interpreting the 

 geologic record,, 



Most of these programs have the threefold objective of: (l) determining 

 the geologic history, subsurface structure, petrography, and evolution 

 of the sea floor (mainly continental shelves and borderlands;, (2) 

 identifying the sedimentary 9 geochemical, diagenetic, structural and 

 geologically important biological processes operating at, above, and 

 below the sea floor, and (3) delineating and evaluating mineral and 

 mineral fuel occurrences „ 



The following investigation will be carried out relative to the above: 



1) Analytical laboratories , 



Studies of diagenetic processes with special 

 reference to glauconite, zeolites and clays,, 



Spectrochemical analysis of aquatic sediments 

 and related waters „ 



2) Isotope geology „ 



Continuous gamma radiation profiles of bottom 

 sediments „ 



Investigation of physical properties with in 

 situ measuring and sampling devices » 



Marine geochronological and paleotemperature 

 research „ 



3) Geochemical exploration and minor elements, 



Studies of materials and minor elements in 

 marine sediments , 



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