Charles A. Nittrouer – Continental Margin Sedimentation

Автор: Charles A. Nittrouer
Название книги: Continental Margin Sedimentation
Формат: PDF
Тема: Геология
Страницы: 560
Качество: Изначально компьютерное, E-book

This volume on continental margin sedimentation brings together anexpert editorial and contributor team to create a state-of-the-artresource. Taking a global perspective, the book spans a range oftimescales and content, ranging from how oceans transportparticles, to how thick rock sequences are formed on continentalmargins.
Summarizes and integrates our understanding of sedimentaryprocesses and strata associated with fluvial dispersal systems oncontinental shelves and slopes
Explores timescales ranging from particle transport at oneextreme, to deep burial at the other
Insights are presented for margins in general, and with focuson a tectonically active margin (northern California) and a passivemargin (New Jersey), enabling detailed examination of the intricaterelationships between a wide suite of sedimentary processes andtheir preserved stratigraphy
Includes observational studies which document the processes andstrata found on particular margins, in addition to numerical modelsand laboratory experimentation, which provide a quantitative basisfor extrapolation in time and space of insights aboutcontinental-margin sedimentation
Provides a research resource for scientists studying modern andancient margins, and an educational text for advanced students insedimentology and stratigraphy