Continental Shelves of the World: Their Evolution During the Last Glacio-Eustatic Cycle
Product code: M0041
Print publication date: 06/11/2014
Earth and Solar System History, Palaeoclimatology, Geological Society of London, GSL Memoirs
Type: Book (Hardback)
Binding: Hardback
ISBN: 9781862396869
Author/Edited by: Edited by F.L. Chiocci & A.R. Chivas
Weight: 1.7kg
Number of pages: 343
Online publication date: 25/09/2014
Lyell Collection URL: https://www.lyellcollection.org/toc/mem/41/1
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Product Code: M0041
Edited by F.L. Chiocci & A.R. Chivas
Memoir 41
The world's continental shelves are the sites of vast resources of food, energy and minerals, the exploitation of which is continuously increasing. Fluctuating global sea levels throughout the Quaternary period produced multiple transgressive and regressive cycles that profoundly affected and shaped these shelves. The complex interactions among climate, sea level, tectonics, oceanography and sediment input have formed distinctive sediment packages on each shelf and provide a guide to the interpretation of older shelf sequences throughout the geological record.
This Memoir compiles studies on 23 selected shelves from all the continents, focusing on their evolution and examining the patterns of sedimentation during the past approximately 125 000 years. In addition to providing basic background information for each area, the chapters consider specific aspects of continental shelf research, from seismic stratigraphy to geomorphology, from palaeoceanography to palaeo sea-level reconstruction and from palaeontology to geochemistry.
Published online 26/09/2014. Print copy available from 06/11/2014. http://mem.lyellcollection.org/content/41/1
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Chapter 1 CHIOCCI, F. L. & CHIVAS, A. R. An overview of the continental shelves of the world
Chapter 2 SHAW, J., TODD, B. J., LI, M. Z., MOSHER, D. C. & KOSTYLEV, V. E. Continental shelves of Atlantic Canada
Chapter 3 MILLER, K. G., BROWNING, J. V., MOUNTAIN, G. S., SHERIDAN, R. E., SUGARMAN, P. J., GLENN, S. & CHRISTENSEN, B. A. History of continental shelf and slope sedimentation on the US middle Atlantic margin
Chapter 4 VITAL, H. The north and northeast Brazilian tropical shelves
Chapter 5 NAGAI, R. H., SOUSA, S. H. M. & MAHIQUES, M. M. The southern Brazilian shelf
Chapter 6 VIOLANTE, R. A., PATERLINI, C. M., MARCOLINI, S. I., COSTA, I. P., CAVALLOTTO, J. L., LAPRIDA, C., DRAGANI, W., GARCÍA CHAPORI, N., WATANABE, S., TOTAH, V., ROVERE, E. I. & OSTERRIETH, M. L. The Argentine continental shelf: morphology, sediments, processes and evolution since the Last Glacial Maximum
Chapter 7 UŚCINOWICZ, S. The Baltic Sea continental shelf
Chapter 8 REY, D., ÁLVAREZ-IGLESIAS, P., ARAÚJO, M. F., BERNABEU, A. M., COMAS, M., DECASTRO, M., DRUET, M., FERREIRA DA SILVA, E., FERRÍN, A., GESTEIRA, M., MARTINS, V., MOHAMED, K. J., RUBIO, B. & VILAS, F. The NW Iberian continental shelf
Chapter 9 LOBO, F. J., LE ROY, P., MENDES, I. & SAHABI, M. The Gulf of Cádiz continental shelves
Chapter 10 MHAMMDI, N., SNOUSSI, M., MEDINA, F. & JAAÏDI, E. B. Recent sedimentation in the NW African shelf
Chapter 11 LOBO, F. J., ERCILLA, G., FERNÁNDEZ-SALAS, L. M. & GÁMEZ, D. The Iberian Mediterranean shelves
Chapter 12 MARTORELLI, E., FALESE, F. & CHIOCCI, F. L. Overview of the variability of Late Quaternary continental shelf deposits of the Italian peninsula
Chapter 13 FERENTINOS, G., LYKOUSIS, V., PAPATHEODOROU, G. & IATROU, M. Hellenic shelf: late Quaternary tectonics, sea-level changes, sedimentation and geohazards
Chapter 14 NICHOLAS, W. A. & CHIVAS, A. R. Late Quaternary sea-level change on the Black Sea shelves
Chapter 15 FARUQUE, B. M. & RAMACHANDRAN, K. V. The continental shelf of western India
Chapter 16 FARUQUE, B. M., VAZ, G. G. & MOHAPATRA, G. P. The continental shelf of eastern India
Chapter 17 RAMASWAMY, V. & RAO, P. S. The Myanmar continental shelf
Chapter 18 O’BRIEN, P. E., HARRIS, P. T., POST, A. L. & YOUNG, N. East Antarctic continental shelf: Prydz Bay and the Mac.Robertson Land Shelf
Chapter 19 COLLINS, L. B., JAMES, N. P. & BONE, Y. Carbonate shelf sediments of the western continental margin of Australia
Chapter 20 MURRAY-WALLACE, C. V. The continental shelves of SE Australia
Chapter 21 YANG, S., WANG, Z., DOU, Y. & SHI, X. A review of sedimentation since the Last Glacial Maximum on the continental shelf of eastern China
Chapter 22 BARRIE, J. V., HETHERINGTON, R. & MACLEOD, R. Pacific margin, Canada shelf physiography: a complex history of glaciation, tectonism, oceanography and sea-level change
Chapter 23 COVAULT, J. A. & FILDANI, A. Continental shelves as sediment capacitors or conveyors: source-to-sink insights from the tectonically active Oceanside shelf, southern California, USA
Chapter 24 DUMONT, J. F., SANTANA, E., BONNARDOT, M.-A., PAZMIÑO, N., PEDOJA, K. & SCALABRINO, B. Geometry of the coastline and morphology of the convergent continental margin of Ecuador
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