This volume on continental margin sedimentation brings together an
expert editorial and contributor team to create a state-of-the-art
resource. Taking a global perspective, the book spans a range of
timescales and content, ranging from how oceans transport
particles, to how thick rock sequences are formed on continental
margins.
* Summarizes and integrates our understanding of sedimentary
processes and strata associated with fluvial dispersal systems on
continental shelves and slopes
* Explores timescales ranging from particle transport at one
extreme, to deep burial at the other
* Insights are presented for margins in general, and with focus
on a tectonically active margin (northern California) and a passive
margin (New Jersey), enabling detailed examination of the intricate
relationships between a wide suite of sedimentary processes and
their preserved stratigraphy
* Includes observational studies which document the processes and
strata found on particular margins, in addition to numerical models
and laboratory experimentation, which provide a quantitative basis
for extrapolation in time and space of insights about
continental-margin sedimentation
* Provides a research resource for scientists studying modern and
ancient margins, and an educational text for advanced students in
sedimentology and stratigraphy
A propos de l’auteur
Charles A. Nittrouer is a Professor in the School of
Oceanography and in the Department of Earth and Space Sciences at
the University of Washington. His research interests include the
modern and ancient formation of sedimentary strata in
continental-margin environments, and the effects of physical and
biological oceanic processes on sedimentary characteristics.
James A. Austin, Jr., is a Senior Research Scientist in
the University of Texas Institute of Geophysics, which is part of
the Jackson School of Geosciences. James uses a variety of
geophysical tools to examine the stratigraphic evolution of a wide
range of marine and lacustrine environments around the world,
including the latest Pleistocene-Holocene geology of the New Jersey
continental shelf.
Michael E. Field is a Senior Marine Geologist with the
USGS Pacific Science Center in Santa Cruz, California. His research
has investigated sedimentation on many of the continental margins
around the United States and the world, and recently he has
expanded his focus to include the effects of watershed changes and
sedimentation patterns on coral reef systems of Pacific high
islands.
Joseph H. Kravitz spent many years as a program director
of Marine Geology and Geophysics at the US Office of Naval
Research, and is now associated with the George Washington
University. His research interests include the study of sediments
and sedimentary processes in high-latitude glacial-marine
environments, as well as the application of marine geotechnique to
geological problems.
James P.M. Syvitski is Director of INSTAAR, an Earth and
Environmental Systems Institute, and is Professor of Geological
Sciences at the University of Colorado. James investigates the
discharge dynamics of global rivers and the sediment load they
carry, the morphology and deposits of continental margins, the
impact of high-energy weather events on coastlines; and the impact
of ice sheets on high-latitude shelves and slopes.
Patricia L. Wiberg is a Professor in the Department of
Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia. Her current
research topics include storm-driven transport and the formation of
sedimentary strata on the continental shelf, sediment dynamics on
tidal salt marshes and in coastal lagoons, modeling fine-grained
sediment dynamics, sediment-associated contaminant transport, and
the evolution of continental-margin morphology.
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