Contourites. (2008)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by M. Rebesco and A. Camerlenghi.
• Other Names: Rebesco, M (Michele); Camerlenghi, A (Angelo)
• Contents: Part 1. Contourite Research ; 1. Introduction; 2. Personal reminiscences on the history of contourites; 3. Methods for contourite research; Part 2. Bottom currents ; 4. Abyssal and contour currents; 5. Deep-water bottom currents and their deposits; 6. Dynamics of the bottom boundary layer; Part 3. Processes ; 7. Sediment entrainment; 8. Size sorting during transport and deposition of fine sediments: sortable silt and flow speed; 9. The nature of contourite deposition; Part 4. Sediments ; 10. Traction structures in contourites; 11. Bioturbation and biogenic sedimentary structures in contourites; 12. Some aspets of diagenesis in contourites; 13. Contourite facies and the facies model; Part 5. Morphology, geometry and palaeoceanographic reconstructions ; 14. Contourite drifts: nature, evolution and controls; 15. Sediment waves and bedforms; 16. Seismic expression of contourite depositional systems; 17. Identification of ancient contourites: problems and paleoceanographic signifance; Part 6. Domains ; 18. Abyssal plain contourites; 19. Continental slope contourites; 20. Shallow water contourites; 21. Mixed turbidite-contourite systems; 22. High latituted contourites; Part 7. Importance ; 23. Economic relevance of contourites; 24. Paleoceanographic significance of contourite drifts; 25. The significance of contourites for submarine slope stability
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Elsevier Science
• Publication Date: 2008
• Extent: 1 online resource (688 pages)
• Subjects: 551.4686; Marine sediments
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780080931869; 0080931863
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.