Title Statements
- Full title :Contourites
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:2008.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Elsevier
- Place of Publication:Oxford
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2008.
Notes
Bottom currents.
Paleoceanographic significance of contourite drifts.
Abyssal and contour currents.
Abyssal plain contourites.
Bioturbation and biogenic sedimentary structures in contourites.
Continental slope contourites.
Contourite Research.
Contourite drifts: nature, evolution and controls.
Contourite facies and the facies model.
Deep-water bottom currents and their deposits.
Domains.
Dynamics of the bottom boundary layer.
Economic relevance of contourites.
High latituted contourites.
Identification of ancient contourites: problems and paleoceanographic signifance.
Importance.
Methods for contourite research.
Mixed turbidite-contourite systems.
Morphology, geometry and palaeoceanographic reconstructions.
Personal reminiscences on the history of contourites.
Processes.
Sediment entrainment.
Sediment waves and bedforms.
Sediments.
Seismic expression of contourite depositional systems.
Shallow water contourites.
Size sorting during transport and deposition of fine sediments: sortable silt and flow speed.
Some aspets of diagenesis in contourites.
The nature of contourite deposition.
The significance of contourites for submarine slope stability.
Traction structures in contourites.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0444529985, 9780444529985
- oclc:ocn839660479
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