Sediments of the Western Guiana shelf. Reports of the Orinoco shelf expedition. Vol II / Осадочные отложения шельфа Западной Гвинеи. Отчет Оринокской шельфовой экспедиции. Том 2

The examination into the sediments of the Western Guiana shelf, the results. of which are recorded in the present report forms part of the study of the continental shelf deposits off the Orinoco delta. The initiative to this investigation was taken by Prof. Dr Ph. H. KUENEN, Director of the Institute of Marine Geology of Groningen University (Holland); the ‘“‘Bataafsche Petroleum Maatschappij N.V.” of The Hague, by their support, have rendered the necessary expeditions possible. The area of investigation, lying off the Orinoco delta in the N.E. of South America, extends from the Venezuelan Testigos Islands in the N.W. to the shelf area off the Essequibo river mouth in British Guiana in the S.E., from nearshore up to the region of the shelf edge (Fig. 1). <...>