Volume 60: Contourites, 1st Edition

Key Features

* reviews both theoretical topics and case histories
* provides practical advice on multidisciplinary research techniques
* provides also nonspecialist users with an intuitively-accessible, cross-referenced, and comprehensive coverage of the knowledge in the field.
* provides a helpful tool for research in the preparation of classroom lectures

Readership

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

Contourites, 1st Edition

Part 1. Contourite Research
1. Introduction
2. Personal reminiscences on the history of contourites
3. Methods for contourite research

Part 2. Bottom currents
4. Abyssal and contour currents
5. Deep-water bottom currents and their deposits
6. Dynamics of the bottom boundary layer

Part 3. Processes
7. Sediment entrainment
8. Size sorting during transport and deposition of fine sediments: sortable silt and flow speed
9. The nature of contourite deposition

Part 4. Sediments
10. Traction structures in contourites
11. Bioturbation and biogenic sedimentary structures in contourites
12. Some aspets of diagenesis in contourites
13. Contourite facies and the facies model

Part 5. Morphology, geometry and palaeoceanographic reconstructions
14. Contourite drifts: nature, evolution and controls
15. Sediment waves and bedforms
16. Seismic expression of contourite depositional systems
17. Identification of ancient contourites: problems and paleoceanographic signifance

Part 6. Domains
18. Abyssal plain contourites
19. Continental slope contourites
20. Shallow water contourites
21. Mixed turbidite-contourite systems
22. High latituted contourites

Part 7. Importance
23. Economic relevance of contourites
24. Paleoceanographic significance of contourite drifts
25. The significance of contourites for submarine slope stability