Global Sedimentology of the Ocean

1. Introduction
1.1 Historical aspects
1.2 Objectives
2. Generalities
2.1 Structure
2.2 Physics
2.3 Sedimentology
3. Major types of basins in oceans history
3.1 Rift systems
3.2 Intraplate basins
3.3 Crustal fissures
3.4 Oceans in a context of divergence
3.5 Aulacogen basins
3.6 Oceans in a context of convegence
3.7 Basins in a context of collision
3.8 Paleogeography of major oceanic systems
4 Formation of oceanic sediments
4.1 Terrigenous sediments
4.2 Biogenic sediments
4.3 Organic sediments
4.4 Sediments of volcanic origin
4.5 Authigenic sediments
5. Diagenesis of oceanic sediments
5.1 Dynamics of diagenesis
5.2 Effects of diagenesis
5.3 Diagenetic alteration of terrigenous sediments
5.4 Diagenetic alteration of biogenic calcareous sediments
5.5 Diagenetic alteration of biogenic siliceous sediments
5.6 Diagenetic alteration of organic sediments
6. Past oceanic environments
6.1 Anoxic Cretaceous ocean
6.2 Strangelove Ocean at the Cretaceous/Tertiary Booundary
6.3 Early Paleogene Southern Ocean
6.4 Warm oceans at the Paleocene/Eocene Boundary and in the Early Eocene
6.5 Eocene/Oligocene transition South of Tasmania
6.6 Early and middle Miocene oceans: the Monterey Hypothesis
6.7 Messinian salinity crisis in the mediterranean
6.8 Mediterranean sapropels