Key Features
- Examines the rapidly evolving field of deep-sea sedimentary research
- Focuses on sedimentary and diagenetic processes, with theory and case histories
- Covers the climate record, hydrocarbon reservoirs, and other topics of interest
- Features a multimedia component with colour versions of figures
Readership
Oil companies, academic libraries servicing earth and environmental sciences departments, government and public libraries
Deep-Sea Sediments, 1st Edition
Ch. 1 Introduction
Ch. 2 Sedimentary Processes and their Deposits
Ch. 3 Contour Currents and Contourite Drifts
Ch. 4 Pelagic and Hemipelagic deposits
Ch. 5 Hemipelagic Advection and Periplatform Sedimentation
Ch. 6 Benthic Deep Sea Carbonates: Reefs and Seeps:
Ch. 7 Volcaniclastic Processes and Deposits in the Deep-Sea
Ch. 8 Deep-Sea Ichnology: the Relationships Between Depositional Environment and Endobenthic Organisms
Ch. 9 Diagenesis
Ch. 10 Industrial Application of Deep-Sea Sediments
Ch. 11 Mesozoic Pelagic Sediments - Archives for Ocean and Climate History
Ch. 12 Climate Records of Deep-Sea Sediments: Towards the Ice House
