These zones also contain important resources such as hydrocarbon fuels, groundwater and agricultural lands as well as coastal wetlands, fisheries and marine algae. The science plan is expected to provide a blueprint for taking geomorphologic, sedimentary and stratigraphic processes to a substantially higher level of understanding. The research goal is to discern the relationships among processes relevant to sediment production, transport, accumulation, and preservation on margins at multiple temporal and space scales, from turbulence to tectonics and from sedimentary fabric to sequence stratigraphy and basin analysis. The evaluation form is now disabled. The last date to submit your evaluation was December 24, 1999.
Margins are the principal locus of sediment accumulation on Earth.