Modern and Ancient Continental Shelf Anoxia
Product code: SP058
Print publication date: 01/12/1991
Geological Society of London, GSL Special Publications, Sedimentology, Miscellaneous
Binding: Hardback
ISBN: 9780903317672
Weight: 1.06kg
Number of pages: 470
Lyell Collection URL: https://www.lyellcollection.org/toc/sp/58/1
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Special Publication 58
This volume is unique in its consideration of severe oxygen depletion in coastal shelf waters from the perspectives of both marine ecology and geology.
Seasonal anoxia is a serious problem in the coastal waters of Europe, North America and Japan. Its drastic impact on environmental quality and on marine inshore fisheries has stimulated intensive research, in particular into the relative roles of biological and meteorological variables and of anthropogenic eutrophication. However, continental shelf anoxia is not a new phenomenon: at many times in the geological past vast areas of extensive shelf seas experienced episodes of severe oxygen depletion that lasted from thousands to millions of years, depositing most of the source beds for the world's hydrocarbon reserves. This fact stimulated intensive research into the sedimentology, palaeoecology and organic and inorganic geochemistry of these sediments.
The editors' introductory review highlights the significance of the modern studies for an improved understanding of the ancient oxygen-deficient continental shelf environments. Accounts of modern anoxia are then presented, from areas as diverse as the Gulf of Mexico. New York Bight, Chesapeake Bay, the Adriatic Sea, SW Africa and Peru-Chile. These are followed by Devonian to Tertiary examples of ancient anoxic facies from the USA, Greenland, Germany, UK, Brazil. France and Hungary.
TYSON, R. V. & PEARSON, T. H. Modern and ancient continental shelf anoxia: an overview
Modern shelf anoxia
BOESCH, D. F. & RABALAIS, N. N. Effects of hypoxia on continental shelf benthos: comparisons between the New York Bight and the Northern Gulf of Mexico
RABALAIS, N. N., TURNER, R. E., WISEMAN, W. I. Jr. & BOESCH, D. F. A brief summary of hypoxia on the northern Gulf of Mexico continental shelf: 1985-1988
HARPER, D. E. Jr., MCKINNEY, L.D., NANCE, J. M. & SALTER, R. R. Recovery responses of two benthic assemblages following an acute hypoxic event on the Texas continental shelf, northwestern Gulf of Mexico
VAN DER ZWAAN, G. J. & JORISSEN, F. J. Biofacial patterns in river-induced shelf anoxia
MALONE, T. C. River flow, phytoplankton production and oxygen depletion in Chesapeake Bay
JUSTlC, D. Hypoxic conditions in the northern Adriatic Sea: historical development and ecological significance
FAGANELI, J., PEZDIC, J., OGORELEC, B., HERNDL, G. J. • DOLENEC, T. The role of sedimentary biogeochemistry in the formation of hypoxia in shallow coastal waters (Gulf of Trieste, northern Adriatic)
STACHOWlTSCH, M. Anoxia in the Northern Adriatic Sea: rapid death, slow recovery
ARNTZ, W. E., TARAZONA, J., GALLARDO, V. A., FLORES, L. A. & SALZWEDEL, H. Benthos communities in oxygen deficient shelf and upper slope areas of the Peruvian and Chilean Pacific coast, and changes caused by El Nifio
EMEIS, K.-C., WHELAN, J. K. & TARAFA, M. Sedimentary and geochemical expressions of oxic and anoxic conditions on the Peru shelf
BAILEY, G. W. Organic carbon flux and development of oxygen deficiency on the modern Benguela continental shelf south of 22~ spatial and temporal variability
Ancient shelf anoxia
RHOADS, D. C., MULSOW, S. G., GUTSCHICK, R., BALDWIN, C. T., & STOLZ, J. F. The dysaerobic zone revisited: a magnetic facies?
SAVRDA, C. E. & BOTTJER, D. J. Oxygen-related biofacies in marine strata: an overview and update
CUOMO, M. C. 8z BARTHOLOMEW, P. R. Pelletal black shale fabrics: their origin and significance
BAIRD, G. C. & BRETT, C. E. Submarine erosion on the anoxic sea floor: stratinomic, palaeoenvironmental and temporal significance of reworked pyrite-bone deposits
HECKEL, P. H. Thin widespread Pennsylvanian black shales of Midcontinent North America: a record of a cyclic succession of widespread pycnoclines in a fluctuating epeiric sea
PIASECKI, S. & STEMMERIK, L. Late Permian anoxia in central East Greenland
WIGNALL, P. B. & HALLAM, A. Biofacies, stratigraphic distribution and depositional models of British onshore Jurassic black shales
LITTKE, R., BAKER, D. R., LEYTHAEUSER, D. & RULLKOTTER, J. Keys to the depositional history of the Posidonia Shale (Toarcian) in the Hils Syncline, northern Germany
PRAUSS, M., LIGOUIS, B. & LUTERBACHER, H. Organic matter and palynomorphs in the 'Posidonienschiefer' (Toarcian, Lower Jurassic) of southern Germany
BRUMSACK, H.-J. Inorganic geochemistry of the German 'Posidonia Shale': palaeoenviron- mental consequences
HUDSON, J. D. & MARTILL, D. M. The Lower Oxford Clay: production and preservation of organic matter in the Callovian (Jurassic) of central England
OSCHMANN, W. Distribution, dynamics and palaeoecology of Kimmeridgian (Upper Jurassic) shelf anoxia in western Europe
DOYLE, P. & WH1THAM, A. G. Palaeoenvironments of the NordenskjOld Formation: an Antarctic Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous black shale-tuff sequence
BREHERET, J.-G. Glauconitization episodes in marginal settings as echoes of mid-Cretaceous anoxic events in the Vocontian Basin (SE France)
KOUTSOUKOS, E. A. M., MELLO, M. R. & DE AZAMBUJA FILHO, N. C. Micropalaeonto- logical and geochemical evidence of mid-Cretaceous anoxic dysoxic-palaeoenvironments in the Sergipe Basin, northeastern Brazil
VETO, I. & HET~NYI, M. Fate of organic carbon and reduced sulphur in dysoxic-anoxic
Oligocene facies of the Central Parathethys (Carpathian Mountains and Hungary)
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