Composition and properties of rocks and sediments from the Cape Verde fracture zone

Detailed characterization of bottom relief, thickness and structure of the sedimentary cover, magnetic field, crust structure, lithology and stratigraphy of sediments, petrography and geochemistry of magmatic rocks. Conclusions about tectonic layering of the crust and upper mantle in the fault zone, and about a concurrent structural section of large mantle inhomogeneities have been done.

The book is the first monographic description of a major fault structure of the ocean floor.