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A Strait cf Sicily Balearic Basin Plain
lonion end Boleoric Ma!gins j
Shallow
~ Neritic-Bothyal Basin (Siepe) ~
,-~--:--1 l l l l l l l l l l
100 011~r:flb.) 01
o 0 1,2) (/Jl)
(/)(/)
0(/) (/)
(/)---(/) 0 coarse colcareous sand
w
o
v o 0 0 o shallow water mud
~ (/) (/)
(/)®i.
Cl.. (/) 0 hemipelagic mud
i: \ .'~
z 50 €0 ®
~ \:' turbiditic mud
A
~ ®:\ () sand- sii t
o ® i\
z 0 o ® 0 \ • turbiditic sand
~ Il ® ()() o organic ooze
IQ)
® 0
l • sapropel
o
()
0
f •
• ()
l l
500 1000 1500 2000 2500
DEPTH IN METERS
coarse calcareous sand
plus shallow water mud
hemipelagic mud
d- sand - sii t and turbiditic sand
emE] turbiditic mud

-a- upper limit cf probability

~ fawer limit ofprobability

DEPTH IN METERS
FIGURE 36~-Plots showing relation between sediment types in the different Strait of Sicily
environments and depth: A, Percent of sediment type in core versus depth (solid line = regres-
sion line for hemipelagic mud type in Strait environments; dotted line = regression line for
turbiditic mud in Strait environments; dashed line (for hemipelagic mud) and triple dotted line
(turbiditic mud) = regression lines for Balearic Basin plain (includes data from Rupke and
Stanley, 1974); this figure shows the inverse relation between depth and the percent of hemi-
pelagic mud and the direct relation between depth and turbiditic mud)~ B, Cumulative percent
of sediment types versus depth (cumulative percent of each group of sediment is calculated as
follows: a, a + b, a + b + c, a + b + c + d; thin line = upper cumulative limit of proba-
bility for a given sediment group; heavy line = lower cumulàtive limit of probability for same
sediment group; this diagram serves to predict the relative amounts of sediment types at given
depths: at 1000 m, for example, 0% of type a, 65-100% of b, 0-18% of c, and 0-5% of d; at
2500 m, 0% of type a, 40-70% of type b, 10-35% of type c, 5-25% of d).