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Contourites /
Contourites are sediments deposited or substantially reworked by bottom currents. The study of contourites is nowadays crucial for several fields of fundamental and applied research: palaeoclimatology and paleoceanography, since these fairly continuous and relatively high-resolution sediments hold t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Oxford :
Elsevier,
2008.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
| Colección: | Developments in sedimentology ;
60. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contourite Research
- Personal reminiscences on the history of contourites
- Methods for contourite research
- Bottom currents
- Abyssal and contour currents
- Deep-water bottom currents and their deposits
- Dynamics of the bottom boundary layer
- Processes
- Sediment entrainment
- Size sorting during transport and deposition of fine sediments: sortable silt and flow speed
- The nature of contourite deposition
- Sediments
- Traction structures in contourites
- Bioturbation and biogenic sedimentary structures in contourites
- Some aspets of diagenesis in contourites
- Contourite facies and the facies model
- Morphology, geometry and palaeoceanographic reconstructions
- Contourite drifts: nature, evolution and controls
- Sediment waves and bedforms
- Seismic expression of contourite depositional systems
- Identification of ancient contourites: problems and paleoceanographic signifance
- Domains
- Abyssal plain contourites
- Continental slope contourites
- Shallow water contourites
- Mixed turbidite-contourite systems
- High latituted contourites
- Importance
- Economic relevance of contourites
- Paleoceanographic significance of contourite drifts
- The significance of contourites for submarine slope stability.