Abstract
The Yallahs Basin lying at a depth of 1,300 m is about 100 km 2 in area and contains approximately 500 m of sediments. It is structurally controlled and probably fault bounded. It has been filled by resedimentation of noncarbonate material from two gravel fan deltas and, to a lesser extent, by carbonate from the Jamaican island shelf. After the basin was filled slides and turbidity currents from the more active of the two deltas cut the Yallahs canyon down some 200 m and back 16 km across the basin. Seismic profiling shows that two series of sediments occur in the basin, one laid down before the canyon was cut and one after. A short core from the upper series shows a well-graded sequence of sands and silts. Cable breaks indicate that the three main sediment sources are still active.
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