Deep Marine Systems: Processes, Deposits, Environments, Tectonics and Sedimentation
Kevin T. Pickering, Richard N. Hiscott, "Deep Marine Systems: Processes, Deposits, Environments, Tectonics and Sedimentation"
2015 | ISBN-10: 1118865499, 1405125780 | 672 pages | PDF | 54 MB
2015 | ISBN-10: 1118865499, 1405125780 | 672 pages | PDF | 54 MB
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.