Nuclei of Fe-Mn nodules and bottom sediments along a profile: Guiana Basin - Mid-Atlantic Ridge - Canary Basin have been studied by different methods. Tectoedafogenic and bioedafogenic materials have been revealed. Multiple tectonic activity of the Kane transform fault during Pleistocene has been evidenced. Hydrothermally altered sedimentary rocks have been described in the Guiana Basin.
Supplement to: Sval'nov, Vyacheslav N; Belyaeva, Natalia V; Dmitrienko, O B; Novikova, Zoya T; Uspenskaya, Tatyana Y; Shevchenko, Alla Ya (1988): Edaphogenic material in bottom sediments of the North Tropical Atlantic (in Russian). Litologiya i Poleznyye iskopaemyye (Lithology and Mineral Resources), 23(3), 45-63