ANIMAL-SEDIMENT INTERRELATIONSHIPS ON THE BERMUDA SLOPE AND IN THE ADJACENT DEEP SEA
Abstract
A study of animal-sediment interrelationships on the Bermuda slope was initiated during the summer of 1961. Analytical work on the samples was carried out during the academic year 1961-62 at Lehigh University and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution . The purpose of the study was to determine, in as quantitative a manner as possible, the composition of the benthic fauna and associated carbonate sediments, and the variation in these with increasing depth and distance from land. It was hoped that from the study interrelationships between the organisms and the substrate could be established. The field work involved a bathymetric survey of a portion of the southeastern Bermuda slope and sampling for sediments and organisms within this area. Analytical work included texture and mineralogy of the sediments, and biological makeup of the sedimentary particles and the living infauna.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jul 01, 1962
- Accession Number
- AD0286390
Entities
People
- A. C. Neumann
- Howard L. Sanders
- Keith E. Chave
- Robert R. Hessler