Nittrouer / Austin / Field Continental Margin Sedimentation

From Sediment Transport to Sequence Stratigraphy (Special Publication 37 of the IAS)
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-470-76636-1
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 560 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: International Association Of Sedimentologists Series

This volume on continental margin sedimentation brings together anexpert editorial and contributor team to create a state-of-the-artresource. Taking a global perspective, the book spans a range oftimescales and content, ranging from how oceans transportparticles, to how thick rock sequences are formed on continentalmargins.
* Summarizes and integrates our understanding of sedimentaryprocesses and strata associated with fluvial dispersal systems oncontinental shelves and slopes
* Explores timescales ranging from particle transport at oneextreme, to deep burial at the other
* Insights are presented for margins in general, and with focuson a tectonically active margin (northern California) and a passivemargin (New Jersey), enabling detailed examination of the intricaterelationships between a wide suite of sedimentary processes andtheir preserved stratigraphy
* Includes observational studies which document the processes andstrata found on particular margins, in addition to numerical modelsand laboratory experimentation, which provide a quantitative basisfor extrapolation in time and space of insights aboutcontinental-margin sedimentation
* Provides a research resource for scientists studying modern andancient margins, and an educational text for advanced students insedimentology and stratigraphy

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nittrouer, Charles A.

Austin, James A.

Field, Michael E.

Kravitz, Joseph H.

Syvitski, James P. M.

Wiberg, Patricia L.

Über Autor(innen)

Charles A. Nittrouer is a Professor in the School ofOceanography and in the Department of Earth and Space Sciences atthe University of Washington. His research interests include themodern and ancient formation of sedimentary strata incontinental-margin environments, and the effects of physical andbiological oceanic processes on sedimentary characteristics.
James A. Austin, Jr., is a Senior Research Scientist inthe University of Texas Institute of Geophysics, which is part ofthe Jackson School of Geosciences. James uses a variety ofgeophysical tools to examine the stratigraphic evolution of a widerange of marine and lacustrine environments around the world,including the latest Pleistocene-Holocene geology of the New Jerseycontinental shelf.
Michael E. Field is a Senior Marine Geologist with theUSGS Pacific Science Center in Santa Cruz, California. His researchhas investigated sedimentation on many of the continental marginsaround the United States and the world, and recently he hasexpanded his focus to include the effects of watershed changes andsedimentation patterns on coral reef systems of Pacific highislands.
Joseph H. Kravitz spent many years as a program directorof Marine Geology and Geophysics at the US Office of NavalResearch, and is now associated with the George WashingtonUniversity. His research interests include the study of sedimentsand sedimentary processes in high-latitude glacial-marineenvironments, as well as the application of marine geotechnique togeological problems.
James P.M. Syvitski is Director of INSTAAR, an Earth andEnvironmental Systems Institute, and is Professor of GeologicalSciences at the University of Colorado. James investigates thedischarge dynamics of global rivers and the sediment load theycarry, the morphology and deposits of continental margins, theimpact of high-energy weather events on coastlines; and the impactof ice sheets on high-latitude shelves and slopes.
Patricia L. Wiberg is a Professor in the Department ofEnvironmental Sciences at the University of Virginia. Her currentresearch topics include storm-driven transport and the formation ofsedimentary strata on the continental shelf, sediment dynamics ontidal salt marshes and in coastal lagoons, modeling fine-grainedsediment dynamics, sediment-associated contaminant transport, andthe evolution of continental-margin morphology.