Research Catalog

Title

Tectonic controls and signatures in sedimentary successions / edited by L.E. Frostick and R.J. Steel.

Publication

Oxford ; Boston : Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1993.

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Additional Authors

• Frostick, L. E.
• Steel, R. J.

Description

viii, 520 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Special publication no. 20 of the International Association of Sedimentologists

Uniform Title

Special publication ... of the International Association of Sedimentologists ; no. 20.

Subjects

• Sedimentation and deposition
• Geodynamics
• Geology, Stratigraphic

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Tectonic signatures in sedimentary basin fills: an overview / L. E. Frostick and R. J. Steel -- The interrelations of post-collision tectonism and sedimentation in Central Asia / M. E. Brookfield -- Distribution of Plio-Pleistocene and Modern coarse-grained deltas south of the Gulf of Corinth, Greece / M. Seger and J. Alexander -- Some controls on sedimentary sequences in foreland basins: examples from the Alberta Basin / D. J. Cant and G. S. Stockmal -- Stratigraphy and sedimentary development of the Sant Llorenc del Munt fan-delta complex (Eocene, southern Pyrenean foreland basin, northeast Spain) / M. Lopez-Blanco -- Evidence for Late Holocene relative sea-level fall from reconnaissance stratigraphical studies in an area of earthquake-subsided intertidal deposits, Isla Chiloe, southern Chile / S. Bartsch-Winkler and H. R. Schmoll -- Sedimentation in divergent plate-margin basins / L. E. Frostick and R. J. Steel.
• Sea-level changes and extensional tectonics in the Lower Jurassic (northern Helvetic realm, western Switzerland) / B. Loup -- The Tertiary Queen Charlotte Basin: a strike-slip basin on the western Canadian continental margin / J. R. Dietrich, R. Higgs, K. M. Rohr and J. M. White -- Middle Devonian to Dinantian sedimentation in the Campine Basin (northern Belgium): its relation to Variscan tectonism / P. Muchez and V. Langenaeker -- A basin reappraisal of the Proterozoic Torridon Group, northwest Scotland / P. G. Nicholson -- Stratigraphical evolution of a Proterozoic syn-rift to post-rift basin: constraints on the nature of lithospheric extension in the Mount Isa Inlier, Australia / K. A. Eriksson, E. L. Simpson and M. J. Jackson -- Controls on sedimentation at convergent plate-margins / D. I. M. Macdonald -- Thrust-generated, back-fill stacking of alluvial fan sequences, south-central Pyrenees, Spain (La Pobla de Segur Conglomerates) / D. Mellere.
• Evolution of a Pliocene fan-delta: links between the Sorbas and Carboneras Basins, southeast Spain / A. E. Mather -- Tectonic generation of lowstand turbidite units in a foreland basin, Marchean Apennines, Italy / N. Capuano -- Tectonic controls on non-marine sedimentation in a Cretaceous fore-arc basin, Baja California, Mexico / M. M. Fulford and C. J. Busby -- Basin-fill patterns controlled by tectonics and climate: the Neogene 'fore-arc' basins of eastern Crete as a case history / G. Postma, A. R. Fortuin and W. A. van Wamel -- Ancient and modern examples of tectonic escape basins: the Archaean Witwatersrand Basin compared with the Cenozoic Maracaibo Basin / I. G. Stanistreet -- Tectonically induced clastic sediment diversion and the origin of thick, widespread coal beds (Appalachian and Williston basins, USA) / E. S. Belt -- Plio-Pleistocene outer arc basins in southern Central America (Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica) / H. van Eynatten, H. Krawinkel and J. Winsemann.
• Mesozoic-Tertiary sedimentary and tectonic evolution of Neotethyan carbonate platforms, margins and small ocean basins in the Antalya Complex of southwest Turkey / A. H. F. Robertson -- Growth of a sloperidge and its control on sedimentation: Paola slope basin (eastern Tyrrhenian margin) / A. Argnani and F. Trincardi -- Sedimentation and tectonics of the Khomas Hochland accretionary prism, along a Late Proterozoic continental margin, Damara Sequence, central Namibia / P. A. Kukla and I. G. Stanistreet.

ISBN

0632037458

LCCN

93007590

OCLC

• 27812777
• ocm27812777

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