The Depth and Marine Deposits of the Pacific (Volume 38)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 edition. Excerpt: ...GLOBIGERINA OOZE: cream colored, granular, slightly coherent. Calcium Carbonate: 65.75 per cent, pelagic and bottom-living Foraminifera, Echinoid spines, rhabdoliths, coccoliths, and other small calcareous bodies (horseshoe shaped). Residue: 34.25 per cent, yellowish-brown, flocculent, clayey matter, with black mineral particles. Siliceous Organisms (5 per cent), Radiolaria, Sponge spicules, Diatoms, arenaceous Foraminifera. Minerals (5 per cent), angular, mean diameter 0.1 mm., felspar, obsidian, magnetite. Fine Washings (24.25 per cent), amorphous clayey matter, with minute mineral particles and fragments of siliceous organisms. No. 17. Station 22, 14th September, 1899. Lat. 8 31' S.; long. 139 26' W.; depth, 1939 fathoms. GLOBIGERINA OOZE: gray, granular, slightly coherent. Calcium Carbonate: 70.9 per cent, pelagic and bottom-living Foraminifera, rhabdoliths, coccoliths, and other minute calcareous bodies (horseshoe shaped). Residue: 29.1 per cent, yellowish-brown, flocculent, clayey matter, with black deposit of mineral particles: --Siliceous Organisms (3 per cent), Radiolaria, Diatoms, arenaceous Foraminifera, and Sponge spicules. Minerals (5 per cent), angular, mean diameter 0.08 mm., felspar (plagio-clase), augite, obsidian, magnetite, hematite. Fine Washings (21.1 per cent), amorphous clayey matter, with Radio-larian and Diatom fragments, and minute mineral particles. No. 18. Station 23, 14th September, 1899. Lat. 8 33' S.; long. 139 36' W.; depth, 1802 fathoms. GLOBIGERINA OOZE: gray, granular, slightly coherent. Calcium Carbonate: 69.5 per cent, pelagic and bottom-living Foraminifera, Echinoid spines, and small calcareous horseshoe-shaped bodies. Residue: 30.5 per cent, flocculent, brownish-yellow, clayey matter, with large amount of..