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See moreLong held as the leading text in marine sedimentology, this updated edition of Deep-Water Systems is now completely rewritten to reflect the significant advances in our understanding of the processes involved in deep marine environments.
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, as well as 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.
Deep Marine Systems provides a comprehensive exploration, making it an essential resource for students and professionals eager to delve into the intricate dynamics of the ocean’s depths.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781405125789
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 06 November 2015
Country: United States
Imprint: American Geophysical Union
Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 36.0mm
Width: 216.0mm
Height: 277.0mm
Weight: 1860g
Pages: 688
About the Author
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.
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