284 



Sediments 



Table 26 



Elemental Analyses of Chromatographic Fractions of a Sample from 248 to 274 cm 

 IN Santa Barbara Basin' and of Other Organic Materials- 



Carbon 



Hydrogen 



Sulfur 



Nitrogen 



Oxygen 



H/C 



2.32 



0.0-2.4 



2-3 



' Orr and Emery (1956a). 



^Porfiriev(1955). 



^ Recomputed omitting sulfur as a contaminant. 



* Oxygen by difference. 



2 



I- 



Z 



CORE 2622— SANTA BARBARA BASIN 



CORE 2989 -SANTA CATALINA BASIN 



CORE 1941 — SANTA CRUZ BASIN smith. i9S4 



Eh 



+280 

 



10 10 10 10 



CUMULATIVE PARTS PER MILLION 



MD 



3.5 

 3.6 



Figure 228. Cumulative com- 

 position of organic matter in 

 sediments of three basins. Note 

 the logarithmic scale. From 

 Orr and Emery (1956a, Fig. 1). 



