, for assistance with the mineralogic analy-30' SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE EARTH SCIENCES 4* 30' 3* ALBORAN BE CORE LOCATIONS FIGURE 1.-Chart showing core localities and major geographic features in the Alboran Sea and Strait of Gibraltar region. Details on cores available in Huang and Stanley (1972). (Geographic names cited in the text are shown here and on Figures 2 and 3.) sis, and to Professor J. F. Fontbote, University of Granada, for providing us with valuable regional data, maps, and references, and for his review of the text. The 3.5 kHz subbottom records were collected on 1972 cruises of the USNS Lynch, and aerial photographs were supplied by the Defense Intelligence Agency, Washington, D. C. Dr. A. Maldonado, University of Barcelona, also reviewed the manuscript. Funds for this study, part of the Mediterranean Basin Project, including travel to Spain and Morocco and the collecting and processing of samples, were provided to one of us (D. J. S.) by Smithso-nian Research Foundation grants (FY 1971) 472350 and (FY 1972) 430035. Support was also provided (G. K.) by the United Kingdom Natural Evironment Research Council and the Royal Society of London. General Considerations The southern flank of the Betic Cordillera bordering the southern Spanish margin (elevations to over 3000 m) and the northern flank of the Rif (maximum elevations in excess of 2000 m) are cut by numerous seasonally active rivers (or oueds) SAMPLE NUMBER MOROCCAN SAMPLE LOCALITY M Mouth of Oued el Herradou, approx. km west of Tangier town M Beach at mouth of Oued Chall, just east of Tangier M Oued approx. 4 km south of Cap Malabata on Route S7O4, about 2 km from coast M Beach at mouth of Oued Sfisifa, near Pointe Kankouch M Oued el Lgam, along Route S704, near Pointe Bou Maaza M Oued el Razor, at Ksar-es-Seghir, along Route S704 M Beach at Benzou, about 10 km west of Ceuta M Beach about 6 km southwest of Ceuta, near junction of Routes P28 and 8303 M