Pickering / Hiscott Deep Marine Systems

Processes, Deposits, Environments, Tectonics and Sedimentation
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-118-86542-2
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 672 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Wiley Works

Deep-water (below wave base) processes, although generallyhidden from view, shape the sedimentary record of more than 65% ofthe Earth's surface, including large parts of ancientmountain belts. This book aims to inform advanced-levelundergraduate and postgraduate students, and professional Earthscientists with interests in physical oceanography and hydrocarbonexploration and production, about many of the important physicalaspects of deep-water (mainly deep-marine) systems. The authorsconsider transport and deposition in the deep sea, trace-fossilassemblages, and facies stacking patterns as an archive of theunderlying controls on deposit architecture (e.g., seismicity,climate change, autocyclicity). Topics include modern and ancientdeep-water sedimentary environments, tectonic settings, and howbasinal and extra-basinal processes generate the typicalcharacteristics of basin slopes, submarine canyons, contouritemounds and drifts, submarine fans, basin floors and abyssalplains.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pickering, Kevin T.

Hiscott, Richard N.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Part I: Process and Product
Chapter 1: Physical and biological processes
Chapter 2: Sediments (facies)
Chapter 3: Deep-water ichnology (contributed by Thomas Heard)
Chapter 4: Time-space integration
Chapter 5: Statistical properties of sediment gravity flow (SGF) deposits
Part II: Systems
Chapter 6: Sediment drifts and abyssal sediment waves
Chapter 7: Submarine fans and related depositional systems: Modern
Chapter 8: Submarine fans and related depositional systems: Ancient
Part III: Plate tectonics and sedimentation
Chapter 9: Evolving and mature extensional systems
Chapter 10: Subduction margins
Chapter 11: Foreland basins
Chapter 12: Strike-slip continental margin basins
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Kevin T. Pickering is Professor of Sedimentology &Stratigraphy in the Department of Earth Sciences at UniversityCollege London, U.K. He has published ~140 peer-reviewed papers,co-authored 6 books and edited 3 books on aspects of deep-watersediments and global environmental issues. He managed theindustry-sponsored Ainsa Project, an integrated outcrop-subsurfacedrilling project to understand deep-marine channels in the SpanishPyrenees, and has sailed on four international scientific drillingexpeditions (DSDP, ODP, IODP). In 2010, in recognition of hisresearch, Pickering was elected as a Fellow of the GeologicalSociety of America.
Richard N. Hiscott is an Emeritus Professor at MemorialUniversity of Newfoundland, Canada. His 40 years ofprocess-oriented research covers ancient deep-sea to alluvialfacies of Proterozoic to Cretaceous age, four Ocean DrillingProgram campaigns including Amazon submarine fan, Quaternarysedimentology of the Labrador Sea, Santa Monica Basin, and theBlack Sea region including dynamics of the saline gravity currentthat enters the low-salinity Black Sea through the BosphorusStrait.