New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research abstracts

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Notes on a sediment map for the South Otago continental shelf

Peter B. Andrews

N.Z. Geological Survey, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research P.O. Box 30-368, Lower Hutt, New Zealand

Abstract Modern sand and silty sand cover the inner shelf, with silty sand accumulating off the mouth of the Clutha River. Palimpsest sediment dominated by shell debris and polymodal detrital gravel and sand covers the outer shelf. The detrital sediment is largely or wholly of Clutha River origin.

New Zealand Journal of Marine & Freshwater Research, 1979, 13(2): 309-313.
Received 29 September 1978; revision received 2 February 1979

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