Nittrouer, Charles A.
Continental Margin Sedimentation: From Sediment Transport to Sequence Stratigraphy (Special Publication 37 of the IAS)
This volume on continental margin sedimentation brings together an expert editorial and contributor team to create a state-of-the-art resource. Taking a global perspective, the book spans a range of timescales and content, ranging from how oceans transport particles, to how thick rock sequences are formed on continental margins.
- Summarizes and integrates our understanding of sedimentary processes and strata associated with fluvial dispersal systems on continental shelves and slopes
- Explores timescales ranging from particle transport at one extreme, to deep burial at the other
- Insights are presented for margins in general, and with focus on a tectonically active margin (northern California) and a passive margin (New Jersey), enabling detailed examination of the intricate relationships between a wide suite of sedimentary processes and their preserved stratigraphy
- Includes observational studies which document the processes and strata found on particular margins, in addition to numerical models and laboratory experimentation, which provide a quantitative basis for extrapolation in time and space of insights about continental-margin sedimentation
- Provides a research resource for scientists studying modern and ancient margins, and an educational text for advanced students in sedimentology and stratigraphy
- Tekijä(t)
- Nittrouer, Charles A.
- Austin, James A.
- Field, Michael E.
- Kravitz, Joseph H.
- Syvitski, James P. M.
- Wiberg, Patricia L.
- Julkaisija
- John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
- Julkaisuvuosi
- 2007
- Kieli
- en
- Painos
- 1
- Sarja
- International Association Of Sedimentologists Series
- Sivumäärä
- 560 sivua
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- E-kirja
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780470766361