Continental margin sedimentation: From sediment transport to sequence stratigraphy
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Abstract
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
| Publication type | Book |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Monograph |
| Title | Continental margin sedimentation: From sediment transport to sequence stratigraphy |
| Series number | 37 |
| ISBN | 9781444304398 |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781444304398 |
| Year Published | 2007 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Wiley |
| Publisher location | Malden, MA |
| Contributing office(s) | Coastal and Marine Geology Program |
| Description | x, 549 p. |
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