Keywords:
Marine sediments.
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Electronic books.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (455 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781444304862
Series Statement:
International Association of Sedimentologists Series ; v.70
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=427986
Language:
English
Note:
Intro -- Pelagic Sediments: on Land and under the Sea -- Contents -- Introduction -- Plate stratigraphy and the fluctuating carbonate line -- Preservation of cephalopod skeletons and carbonate dissolution on ancient Tethyan sea floors -- Sedimentology of Palaeozoic pelagic limestones: the Devonian Griotte (Southern France) and Cephalopodenkalk (Germany) -- Deep-water limestones from the Devonian-Carboniferous of the Carnic Alps, Austria -- Pelagic ooze-chalk-limestone transition and its implications for marine stratigraphy -- Some aspects of cementation in chalk -- Diagenesis of Upper Cretaceous chalks from England, Northern Ireland and the North Sea -- Maastrichtian chalk of north-west Europe-a pelagic shelf sediment -- Magnesian-calcite nodules in the Ionian deep sea: an actualistic model for the formation of some nodular limestones -- Origin of red nodular limestones (Ammonitico Rosso, Knollenkalke) in the Mediterranean Jurassic: a diagenetic model -- Deposition and diagenesis of silica in marine sediments -- Chertification of oceanic sediments -- Petrography and diagenesis of deep-sea cherts from the central Atlantic -- Formation of deep-sea chert: role of the sedimentary environment (Abstract) -- Siliceous turbidites: bedded cherts as redeposited ocean ridge-derived sediments -- Radiolarian cherts, pelagic limestones and igneous rocks in eugeosynclinal assemblages -- Origin and fate of ferromanganoan active ridge sediments (Abstract) -- Encrusting organisms in deep-sea manganese nodules -- Pelagic sediments in the Cretaceous and Tertiary history of the Troodos massif, Cyprus.
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