INVESTIGATIONS OF THE BANK CAMPECHE IN TH E GULF-OF-MEXICO

On the base detailed investigations the bank Campeche defined that low and rised visconsion sea-level played major role for development of i ts morphology. First of all - terraces at the depths from 10 to 140 m. Large-sale bathymetric charts for the are of the Pera bank were made on the basis of detailed geological and geomorphological studies carri ed out with ''Mir'' submersible in cruise 30 of R/V ''Akademik Mstisla v Keldysh''. The bottom topography distinguished, was formed as a resu lt of glacial erstatic oscillations of the ocean level during Pleistoc ene-Holocene. The role of exogenic processes in shown during the prese nt-day evolution of the morphology in the region.