Geological Processes on Continental Margins: Sedimentation, Mass-Wasting and Stability
Product code: SP129
Print publication date: 14/05/1998
Geological Society of London, GSL Special Publications, Earth Materials Deposits and Petrology, Marine studies and oceanography, Sedimentology
Binding: Hardback
ISBN: 9781897799970
Author/Edited by: Edited by M. S. Stoker, D. Evans and A. Cramp
Weight: 0.8kg
Number of pages: 362
Lyell Collection URL: https://www.lyellcollection.org/toc/sp/129/1
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Special Publication 129
There has recently been a growth in the level of study of continental margins. Apart from increased scientific interest, studies of continental margins have now taken on a much higher commercial profile, largely because of the oil industry’s move off the shelf into increasingly deep waters world-wide. The variation and disturbance of sediments on slopes make them ideal areas for the generation, migration and entrapment of hydrocarbons. It is thought that in ten years’ time as much as 25% of oil will be extracted from deep-water fields. An understanding of continental margin processes is therefore becoming crucial to the safe development of deep-water oilfields. The papers in this volume thus have considerable actual or potential commercial value.
EVANS, D., STOKER, M. S. & CRAMP, A. Geological processes on continental margins: sedimentation, mass-wasting and stability: an introduction mass-wasting and stability: an introduction
VAN WEERING, TJ. C. E., NIELSEN, Z., KENYON, N. H., AKENTIEVA, K. & KUIJPERS, A. H. Large submarine slides at the NE Faeroe continental margin
REEDER, M., ROTHWELL, R. G., STOW, D. A. V., KAHLER, G. & KENTON, N. H. Turbidite flux, architecture and chemostratigraphy of the Herodotus Basin, Levantine Sea, SE Mediterranean
DOBSON, M. R., O'LEARY, L. R. & VEART, M. Sediment delivery to the Gulf of Alaska: source mechanisms along a glaciated transform margin
HOLMES, R. W., LONG, D. & DODD, L. R. Large scale debrites and submarine landslides on the Barra Fan, W of Britain
ARMISHAW, J. E., HOLMES, R. W. & STOW, D. A. V. Morphology and sedimentation on the Hebrides Slope and Barra Fan, NW UK continental margin
BALTZER, A., HOLMES, R. W. & EVANS, D. Debris flows on the Sula Sgeir Fan, NW of Scotland
PAUL, M. A., TALBOT, L. A. & STOKER, M. S. Shallow geotechnical profiles, acoustic character and depositional history in glacially influenced sediments from the Hebrides and West Shetland slopes
AUDET, D. M. Mechanical properties of terrigenous muds from levee systems on the Amazon Fan
MULDER, T., SAVOYE, B., PIPER, D. J. W. & SYVITSKI, J. R M. The Var Submarine Sedimentary System: understanding Holocene sediment delivery processes and their importance to the geological record
NIELSON, Z., VAN WEERING, TJ. C. E. & ANDERSEN, M. S. Cenozoic changes in the sedimentary regime on the northeastern Faeroes margin
CLAUSEN, L. The Southeast Greenland glaciated margin: 3D stratal architecture of shelf and deep sea
ERCILLA, G., BARAZA, J., ALONSO, B. & CANALS, M. Recent geological processes in the central Bransfield Basin (Western Antarctic Peninsula)
EGERTON, P. Seismic stratigraphy of Palaeogene depositional sequences: northeast Rockall Trough
STOKER, M. S. Sediment-drift development on the continental margin off NW Britain
RASMUSSEN, T., THOMSEN, E. & VAN WEERING, TJ. C. E. Cyclic sedimentation on the
Faeroe Drift 53-10 ka BP related to climatic variations
HOWE, J. A., HARLAND, R., HINE, N. M. & AUSTIN, W. E. N. Late Quaternary stratigraphy and palaeoceanographic change in the northern Rockall Trough, North Atlantic Ocean
VIANA, A. R. & FAUGI~RES, J. C. Upper slope sand deposits: the example of Campos Basin, a latest Pleistocene/Holocene record of the interaction between along slope and downslope currents
STOW, D. A. V. • TABREZ, A. R. Hemipelagites: processes, facies and model
HALL, I. R. & MCCAVE, I. N. Late Glacial to Recent accumulation fluxes of sediments at the shelf edge and slope of NW Europe, 480-50 N
