Deep Marine Systems - Processes, Deposits, Environments, Tectonics and Sedimentation (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	November 2015
First published:	2016
Authors:	K. Pickering
Dimensions:	278 x 216 x 31mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	672
ISBN-13:	978-1-4051-2578-9
Categories:	Books > Earth & environment > Earth sciences > Geology & the lithosphere > Soil science, sedimentology Books > Earth & environment > Earth sciences > The hydrosphere > Oceanography (seas) Promotions
LSN:	1-4051-2578-0
Barcode:	9781405125789

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