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Research Article| June 30, 1931 Sea-Bottom Samples from the Cabot Strait Earthquake Zone1 E. M. KINDLE E. M. KINDLE Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar GSA Bulletin (1931) 42 (2): 557–574. https://doi.org/10.1130/GSAB-42-557 Article history received: 19 Jan 1931 first online: 02 Mar 2017 Cite View This Citation Add to Citation Manager Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Search Site Citation E. M. KINDLE; Sea-Bottom Samples from the Cabot Strait Earthquake Zone. GSA Bulletin 1931;; 42 (2): 557–574. doi: https://doi.org/10.1130/GSAB-42-557 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Refmanager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentBy SocietyGSA Bulletin Search Advanced Search Abstract IntroductionThe bottom samples discussed in this paper represent 24 stations in the region southwest of the Grand Banks where many cable breaks were caused by the earthquake of November 18, 1929. These samples were obtained by the cable repair ships, the John W. Mackay and the Faraday; 17 were sent to me by Mr. A. E. Powell, vice-president of the Commercial Cable Company, and I am indebted to Prof. D. S. McIntosh, of Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, for the opportunity of studying five others.All the sediments included in this study fall in the class of terriginous deep-sea deposits, coming from depths ranging from 400 to 2,000 fathoms. The fact that 12 cables were broken, some of them in many places, by the heavy earthquake of November, 1929 (figure 1), lends especial interest to the samples of sediment forming the sea-bottom on which this havoc was wrought.The . . . This content is PDF only. Please click on the PDF icon to access. First Page Preview Close Modal You do not have access to this content, please speak to your institutional administrator if you feel you should have access.
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