Application of the principles of seismic geomorphology to continental slope and base-of-slope systems
Subtitle: case studies from seafloor and near-seafloor analogues
By: edited by Bradford E. Prather ... [et al.].
Contributors: SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology)
Series: SEPM special publication -- #99; Special publication (SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology)) -- no. 99.
Publisher: Society for Sedimentary Geology
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Tulsa, Okla
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
ISBN-13: 9781565763043
Subjects: Submarine topography; Marine sediments; Geomorphology
Other titles: Case studies from seafloor and near-seafloor analogues
Description: Compilation of papers demonstrating the utility of seafloor-to-shallow subsurface datasets in studying the development of submarine landscapes and their affiliated sedimentary deposits, highlighting the controls of slope morphology on patterns of both sedimentation and erosion.
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Table of contents: title: Dedication : Bruno Savoye; title: Introduction / Bradford E. Prather ... [et al.]; title: Shelf-to-slope transition. Architecture of an aggradational tributary submarine-channel network on the continental slpe offshore Brunei Darussalam / Kyle M. Straub ... [et al.] ; Seismic stratigraphy of a shelf-edge delta and linked submarine channels in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico / Zoltán Sylvester ... [et al.] ; Erosional and depositional features of glacial meltwater discharges on the eastern Canadian continental margin / David J.W. Piper ... [et al.]; title: Slope aprons. Stratigraphic evolution of a tortuous corridor fro[m] the stepped sloped of Angola / Deirdre C. Hay ; Evolution of an intra-slope apron, offshore Niger Delta slope : impact of step geometry on apron architecture / Mark D. Barton ; Pleistocene seascape evolution above a "simple" stepped slope : western Niger Delta / Mark E. Deptuck, Zoltán Sylvester, and Ciaran O'Byrne; title: Slope valleys. Accommodation change during bypass across of a late-stage fan in the shallow Auger Basin / Charles W. Bohn IV, Peter B. Flemings, and Rudy L. Singerland ; Interactions between coeval sedimentation and deformation from the Niger Delta deepwater fold belt / Ian R. Clark, and Joseph A. Cartwright ; architectural changes and preferential sand deposition in a confined channel-levee system forced to surmount a ridge crest / Efthymios K. Tripsanas ... [et al.] ; Paleoceanography insights from a channel system in the Pleistocene foredeep basin of the Adriatic (Mediterranean Sea) / Daniel Minisini, Luca Baglioni and Patrizia Rocchini; title: Base of slope to abyssal plain. The Kramis deep-sea fan off western Algeria : role of sediment waves in turbiditic levee growth / Nathalie Babonneau ... [et al.] ; 3D seismic stratigraphy and evolution of upper Pleistocene deep water depositional systems, Alaminos Canyon, northwestern deep Gulf of Mexico / Shu Jiang ... [et al.] ; Alternating bottom-current-dominated and gravity-flow-dominated deposition in a lower slope and rise setting : insights from the seismic geomorphology of western Scotian margin, eastern Canada / D. Calvin Campbell and Mark E. Deptuck ; Morphology and internal structure of a recent upper Bengal fan-valley complex / Venkatarathnam ... [et al.] ; The influence of subtle gradient changes on deep-water gravity flows : a case study from the Moroccan turbidite system / Russell B. Wynn ... [et al.].