On Contemporary Sedimentation at the Titanic Survey Area

V. N. Lukashin

P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

E-mail: lukashin@ocean.ru

Received October 6, 2008

Abstract—The basic parameters of the sedimentation environment are considered: the Western Boundary
Deep Current that transports sedimentary material and distributes it on the survey area; the nepheloid layer, its
features, and the distribution of the concentrations and particulate standing crop in it; the distribution of the hor-
izontal and vertical fluxes of the sedimentary material; and the bottom sediments and their absolute masses. The
comparison of the vertical fluxes of the particulate matter and the absolute masses of the sediments showed that
the contemporary fluxes of sedimentary material to the bottom provided the distribution of the absolute masses
of the sediments in the survey area during the Holocene.

DOI: 10.1134/S0001437009060095

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