Contourites

Edited by

M. Rebesco, Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica, Sgonico, Italy
A. Camerlenghi, ICREA, Istitució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats c/o GRC Geociències Marines Universitat de Barcelona, Spain

Audience
oil companies, academic libraries servicing earth and environmental sciences departments, Government and public libraries.

Included in series
Developments in Sedimentology

Hardbound, 688 Pages

Published: November 2008

Imprint: Elsevier

ISBN: 978-0-444-52998-5

Part 1. Contourite Research1. Introduction2. Personal reminiscences on the history of contourites3. Methods for contourite research
Part 2. Bottom currents4. Abyssal and contour currents5. Deep-water bottom currents and their deposits6. Dynamics of the bottom boundary layer
Part 3. Processes7. Sediment entrainment8. Size sorting during transport and deposition of fine sediments: sortable silt and flow speed9. The nature of contourite deposition
Part 4. Sediments10. Traction structures in contourites11. Bioturbation and biogenic sedimentary structures in contourites12. Some aspets of diagenesis in contourites13. Contourite facies and the facies model
Part 5. Morphology, geometry and palaeoceanographic reconstructions14. Contourite drifts: nature, evolution and controls15. Sediment waves and bedforms16. Seismic expression of contourite depositional systems17. Identification of ancient contourites: problems and paleoceanographic signifance
Part 6. Domains18. Abyssal plain contourites19. Continental slope contourites20. Shallow water contourites21. Mixed turbidite-contourite systems22. High latituted contourites
Part 7. Importance23. Economic relevance of contourites24. Paleoceanographic significance of contourite drifts25. The significance of contourites for submarine slope stability

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