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PDF Linkchapter Index [Italic page numbers indicate major references] Abaco Knoll, 359 116, 304, 310, 323 Bahama Platform, 11, 329, 331, 332, Abathomphalus mayaroensis, 101 Aquia Formation, 97, 98, 124 341, 358, 360 Abbott pluton, 220 aquifers, 463, 464, 466, 468, 471, Bahama volcanic crust, 356 Abenaki Formation, 72, 74, 257, 476, 584 Bahamas basin, 3, 5, 35, 37, 39, 40, 259, 261, 369, 372, 458 Aquitaine, France, 213, 374 50 ablation, 149 Arcadia Formation, 505 Bahamas Fracture Zone, 24, 39, 40, Abyssal Plain, 445 Archaean age, 57 50, 110, 202, 349, 358, 368 Adirondack Mountains, 568 Arctic-North Atlantic rift system, 49, Bahamas Slope, 12 Afar region, Djibouti, 220, 357 50 Bahamas-Cuban Fault system, 50 Africa, 146, 229, 269, 295, 299 Ardsley, New York, 568, 577 Baja California, Mexico, 146 African continental crust, 45, 331, Argana basin, Morocco, 206 Bajocian assemblages, 20, 32 347 Argo Fan, Scotian margin, 279 Balair fault zone, 560 African Craton, 368 Argo Salt Formation, 72, 197, 200, Baltimore Canyon trough, 3, 37, 38, African margin, 45, 374 278, 366, 369, 373 40, 50, 67, 72 , 81, 101, 102, African plate, 19, 39, 44, 49 arkoses, 3 138, 139, 222, 254, 269, 360, Afro-European plate, 197 artesian aquifers, 463 366, 369, 396, 419,437 Agamenticus pluton, 220 Ashley Formation, 126 basement rocks, 74 age, 19, 208, 223 Astrerosoma, 96 carbonate deposits, 79 Agulhas Bank, 146 Atkinson Formation, 116, 117 crustal structure, 4, 5, 46 Aiken Formation, 125 Atlantic basin, 6, 9, 264 faults in, 32 Aikin, South Carolina, 515 marine physiography, 9 geologic hazards, 529, 534 Alabama, 217, 476, 514 Atlantic City, New Jersey, 471, 472 hydrocarbon exploration, 445, 450 Albemarle Embayment, 99, 109, 111, Atlantic Coast fault province, 558, intrusive bodies in, 31 115 559, 560 LASE in, 387 Albemarle Valley, 490 Atlantic Coastal Plain, 100, 107, paleoshelf edge in, 44 Albion Member, Clinchfield 370, 517, 521 postrift sedimentary rocks, 74, 87 Formation, 125 See also Coastal Plain seismic experiments, 183, 188 Algeria, 213, 374 Atlantic Continental Shelf, 116, 382 shoals in, 95 Alisporites spp., 209 See also Continental Shelf stratigraphy, 74, 79 Alleghanian Orogeny, 49 Atlantic County, New Jersey, 438 synrift, 74, 203 Altamaha Anomaly, 24 Atlantic Margin Coring (AMCOR) Baltimore Canyon, 11, 12, 404 aluminosilicates, 514 Project, 1, 67, 74, 464, 470, Bamberg Formation, 125 Alvin Canyon, 12, 534, 537 477 Barnegat Light, New Jersey, 471 Alvin Complex, 15 Atlantic Seaboard, 565 Barnwell, South Carolina, 585 American Craton, 368 Atlantic Slope Project (ASP), 67, 74 Barnwell Group, 125 American Geophysical Union, 59 Atlantis, 59 barrier islands, 159, 551, 554, 555 Anchispirocyclina lusitanica. 111, Atlantis Canyon, 12 Basement Hinge Zone, 27 115 Atlantis Fracture Zone, 38 basement structure, Georges Bank Andros Island, 347 Atlantis rift basin, 38, 254 basin, 247 anhydrite, 205 Atopochara trivolvis, 116 Basin and Range Province, 19, 46 Anoplophora, 213 Attapulgus area, Georgia-Florida Bass River Formation, 101 Antarctic ice cap, 376 border, 516 Bath County, Virginia, 223 Antarctica, 132 Aurora Embayment, 139, 141, 143, Bathonian assemblages, 20 Antilles Current, 314, 356 144, 145 Bay of Biscay, 46, 199, 287 Apalachicola Embayment, 40 Aurora Phosphate District, North Bay of Fundy, 41, 49 Appalachia, 57, 61, 62 Carolina, 141, 143, 505, 507, Bear Seamount, 221, 253, 370 Appalachian belt, 220 511 Beaufort Formation, 122 Appalachian Front, 569, 580 Australia, 146 Beaverdam Formation, 99, 100 Appalachian Gravity High (AGH), Australian margin, 19 Belemnitella, 96 232 Avalon Terrace, 373 Belgrade Formation, 126 Appalachian Mountains, 3, 19, 22, Avon Park Formation, 476 Belknap complex, 225 89, 219, 223, 279, 369, 371, Azores hotspot, 234 Bermuda hotspot, 234 569 Bermuda igneous province, 223 dike swarms, 219, 226 Baccaro Member, Abenaki Formation, Bermuda rise, 223 earthquakes, 567 72, 74, 259, 261, 372 Big Cypress Group, 116 faulting, 557 backstripping, 399, 404, 407 bioclastic debris, Baltimore Canyon geothermal resources in, 521 Bahama Banks, 1, 12, 157, 163, trough, 75 gravity high, 202 311, 358, 513 biostratigraphy, North Carolina, 143 orogenic belt, 32, 107, 159, 233, Bahama Escarpment, 12, 330, 332, bioturbation, 121, 355 299, 567 335, 353, 360 Biscay margin, France, 19 relation to continental margin, 57 Bahama Fault Zone, 503 Biscayne aquifer, 464, 466, 468, apparent polar wander (APW), 224 Bahama Islands, 9, 26, 63, 75, 135, 471, 476 Aptian-Albian time, 77, 79, 91, 115, 329, 517 Black Creek Formation, 119, 121 Downloaded from http://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/books/book/chapter-pdf/989795/9780813754581_backmatter.pdf by guest on 27 September 2021 602 Index Black Mingo Group, 123, 124 Caicos basin, 329, 341, 359 geologic hazards, 529 Blake Escarpment, 12, 39, 63, 75, calcite, 143 seismic experiments, 183, 188 76, 78, 194, 291, 295, 296, California, 146 synrift, 203 304, 319, 323 , 348, 353, 371, Calvert Formation, 98, 99, 133, 139, Carson Subbasin, 374 539 507, 517 Carstens Valley, 15 Blake Outer Ridge, 543 calving, ice, 149 Carteret Canyon, 12, 14, 534 Blake Plateau, 10, 11, 12, 58, 63, Camerosporites secatus, 209 Castle Hayne Limestone Formation, 64, 77, 78, 157, 263, 291, 346, camptonite, 222, 226 125, 517 348, 358, 370, 513, 539, 543 Canadian Arctic Archipelago, 208 Cat Gap Formation, 262 clay deposits, 517 Canadian margin, 197, 255, 256, Cat Island, 330, 331 phosphate resources, 501, 510 276, 372 Catapsdrax dissimilis Zone, 101 Blake Plateau basin, 1, 3, 37, 39, 40, Cap Blanc, West Africa, 49 Cay Sal Bank, 344, 345 67, 75, 79, 81, 109, 139, 291, Cape Ann, Massachusetts, 486, 488, CDP, 387, 395 366, 460 573 Cedar Keys Limestone Formation, geologic hazards, 529, 530 earthquake (1755), 534 124, 476 gravity model, 194 Cape Canaveral, Florida, 160, 475, Cenozoic, 1, 3, 5, 6, 37, 39. 63, 69, Blake Ridge, 291, 319, 323, 371, 494, 495 76, 81, 87, 89, 107,131, 166, 539 Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 11, 41, 365 Blake Spur, 12, 14, 291, 293, 305, 149, 467, 488 Bahama Islands, 340, 344 319, 372 Cape Fear, North Carolina, 151, 494, Baltimore Canyon trough, 269, Blake Spur Fracture Zone, 22, 25, 38, 495, 496, 544 279, 280, 287 39, 40, 50, 298, 568 Cape Fear Arch, South Carolina, 77, Blake Ridge, 291 Blake Spur Magnetic Anomaly 109, 116, 119, 121, 124, 125, erosional processes, 314 (BSMA), 22, 24, 32, 39, 44, 45, 126, 139, 311 Georges Bank, 263, 264, 280, 365 111, 194, 233, 284, 298, 334, Cape Fear Formation, 117 magmatism, 217 348, 356 Cape Fear River, North Carolina, North Carolina, 145 Blake/Bahama Abyssal Plain, 539 121, 497 sediment patterns, 376 Blake-Bahama basin, 335, 348, 356, Cape Fear Terrace, 145 tectonism, 557 360 Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, 5, 9, central Atlantic rift system, 50 Blake-Bahama Escarpment, 371 12, 13, 14, 22, 63, 75, 109, central Atlantic, 25 Blake-Bahama Formation, 263 111, 151, 160, 163, 301, 306, Central Florida Phosphate District, Blake-Bahama Outer Ridge, 14, 64 315, 370, 455, 524, 545 511 Blake-Caicon ridges, 223 Cape Henlopen, 159 Central Florida Platform, 505 Block Canyon, 10, 12, 15 Cape Lookout, North Carolina, 11, Central High Atlas basin, Morocco, Block Island, 87, 488 12, 485, 488, 544 213 Block Island Fault, 32, 46 Cape Lookout High, 139, 141, 144, cerium, 513 Block Shelf Valley, 10 145, 505 Chandler Bridge Formation, 126 Blomiden Formation, 205 Cape May, New Jersey, 89 Charleston, South Carolina, 31, 40, Blue Ridge Mountains, 557 Cape May Formation, 100 123, 126, 217, 233, 299, 495, Blue Ridge province. 111, 568 Cape May Slope, 89 496, 539, 560, 562, 568 Bone Island Formation, 111, 115 Cape Romain, South Carolina, 160, earthquake (1886), 6, 356, 534, Bone Valley Member, Hawthorn 505, 543, 544 543, 565, 566, 571, 580 Formation, 139, 503, 505, 507 carbonate fluorapatite, 143 shoreline retreat, 551 Borelis sp., 124 carbonates Charleston block, 40 Boston, Massachusetts, 150, 159 bank sedimentation, 5, 10, 11, 28, Charleston Bump, 314, 319, 510 Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, 489 38, 44, 125, 163, 311, 345, Chatham Rise, 146 Boston-Ottawa Seismic Zone, 568 369, 387, 407, 458, 464 Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, 98, 100, Bottom Simulating Reflector (BSR), deep-water, 166 158, 493, 517, 527 320 platforms, 12, 63, 260, 263, 280, Chesapeake Group, 98, 99, 507 Bouguer anomaly, 220, 223, 331, 307, 314, 322, 365, 369 Chesapeake Valley, 490 347 reefs, 10, 11, 64, 111, 163, 271, Chesapeake-Delaware basin, 89, 90, Boulder Zone, 476 306, 311, 455 91, 95. 97, 98, 99 Brandywine fault system, 90, 559 resources, 517 Chester shoal, 496 Brandywine Formation, 99 sediment, 3, 115, 121, 125, 135, Chickahominy Formation, 97, 98 Brevard—Blue Ridge anticlinorium, 141, 145, 155, 160, 163, 354, Chicora Member, Williamsburg 219 359, 374, 541 Formation, 123 Bridgeton Formation, 99, 100 Carboniferous, 49, 209 Chile, 146 Brightseat Formation, 97 Card Sound Dolomite, 119, 121 Choctawhatchee Formation, 139 Broadwater, Virginia, 549 Caribbean 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