Deep Marine Systems Processes, Deposits, Environments, Tectonics and Sedimentation - Wiley Works

Deep-water (below wave base) processes, although generally hidden from view, shape the sedimentary record of more than 65% of the Earth's surface, including large parts of ancient mountain belts. This book aims to inform advanced-level undergraduate and postgraduate students, and professional Earth scientists with interests in physical oceanography and hydrocarbon exploration and production, about many of the important physical aspects of deep-water (mainly deep-marine) systems. The authors consider transport and deposition in the deep sea, trace-fossil assemblages, and facies stacking patterns as an archive of the underlying controls on deposit architecture (e.g., seismicity, climate change, autocyclicity). Topics include modern and ancient deep-water sedimentary environments, tectonic settings, and how basinal and extra-basinal processes generate  the typical characteristics of basin slopes, submarine canyons, contourite mounds and drifts, submarine fans, basin floors and abyssal plains.

ISBN:	9781405125789
Publisher:	Wiley
Imprint:	American Geophysical Union
Published date:	06 Nov 2015
DEWEY:	551.4686
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	xii, 657
Weight:	1856g
Height:	220mm
Width:	280mm
Spine width:	35mm

Write a review

Your Name:

Your Review: Note: HTML is not translated!

Rating: Bad           Good

Enter the code in the box below: