Extreme depositional environments : mega end members in geologic time / edited by Marjorie A. Chan and Allen W. Archer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chan, Marjorie A.

Archer, Allen W. (Allen William), 1952-

Series:

Special papers (Geological Society of America) ; 370.

Special paper ; 370

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sedimentation and deposition.

Geology, Stratigraphic.

Physical Description:

iv, 281 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 28 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colo. : Geological Society of America, [2003]

Contents:

Introduction: a look at extreme depositional systems / Marjorie A. Chan and Allen W. Archer

Timing of late Paleozoic glaciation in Gondwana: was glaciation responsible for the development of northern hemisphere cyclotherms? / John L. Isbell ... [et al.]

Subglacial outburst floods and extreme sedimentary events in the Labrador Sea / John Shaw and Jerome-Etienne Lesemann

Limits on extreme eolian systems: Sahara of Mauritania and Jurassic Navajo sandstone examples / Gary Kocurek

Quaternary loess-paleosol sequences as examples of climate driven sedimentary extremes / Daniel R. Muhs and E. Arthur Bettis III

Lessons from large lake systems: thresholds, non-linearity, and strange attractors / Kevin M. Bohacs, Alan R. Carroll, and Jack E. Neal

Organic carbon burial by large Permian lakes, northwest China / Alan R. Carroll and Marwan A. Wartes

Features and origin of the giant Cucomungo Canyon alluvial fan, Eureka Valley, California / Terence C. Blair

Desmoinesian coal beds of the Eastern interior and surrounding basins: the largest tropical peat mines in Earth history / Stephen F. Greb ... [et al.]

Highest tides of the world / Allen W. Archer and Mary S. Hubbard

Giant submarine canyons: is size any clue to their importance in the rock record? / William R. Normark and Paul R. Carlson

Remnant-ocean submarine fans: largest sedimentary systems on Earth / Raymond V. Ingersoll, William R. Dickinson, and Stephan A. Graham

Megareefs in Middle Devonian supergreenhouse climates / Paul Copper and Christopher Scotese

Origin and evolution of large Precambrian iron formations / Bruce M. Simonson

Extreme paleoceanographic conditions in a Paleozoic oceanic upwelling system: organic productivity and widespread phosphogenesis in the Permian Phosophoria Sea / Eric E. Hiatt and David A. Budd.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0813723701

OCLC:

52092033