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Deep Marine Systems: Processes, Deposits, Environments, Tectonics and Sedimentation
Kevin T. Pickering
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Richard N. Hiscott
(Author)
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American Geophysical Union
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Deep Marine Systems: Processes, Deposits, Environments, Tectonics and Sedimentation - Pickering, Kevin T. ; Hiscott, Richard N.
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Synopsis "Deep Marine Systems: Processes, Deposits, Environments, Tectonics and Sedimentation"
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.
