Introduction, objectives, and principal results of Deep Sea Drilling Project Leg 96.

Abstract

Multiple acoustical sub-bottom reflectors can be traced regionally across the entire fan, dividing this sediment body into sediment packages called fan lobes. Seven of these acoustical reflectors have been mapped and they divide the fan into seven fan lobes. Major objectives were to place the fan lobes into a time-stratigraphic framework, to determine if the midfan channel is migratory in nature, to establish the lithological characteristics of the acoustical high-amplitude zone present near the bottom of the channel fill, to analyze if sand is transported to the lower fan and in which depositional mode it is emplaced, to confirm or modify existing fan models, and to determine the physical and chemical characteristics of these deep-sea fan deposits. -from Authors