Research Catalog

Title

Modern and ancient geosynclinal sedimentation; proceedings of a symposium dedicated to Marshall Kay and held at Madison, Wisconsin, November 10-11, 1972. Edited by R. H. Dott, Jr., and Robert H. Shaver.

Publication

Tulsa, Okla., Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, 1974.

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Additional Authors

• Kay, George Marshall, 1904-
• Dott, Robert H., 1929-
• Shaver, Robert Harold, 1922-
• Kay, Marshall, 1904-1975
• University of Wisconsin--Madison. Department of Geology and Geophysics
• National Science Foundation (U.S.)

Description

v, 380 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

Series Statement

Special publication/Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists/ ; no. 19

Uniform Title

Special publication (Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists) no. 19.

Subject

• Geosynclines > Congresses
• Sediments (Geology) > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Conference papers and proceedings.

Note

• Sponsored by the Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the National Science Foundation.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies.

Contents

• The geosynclinal concept / R.H. Dott Jr. -- Collapsing continental rises : actualistic concept of geosynclines -- a review / Robert S. Dietz and John C. Holden -- Midplate continental margin geosynclines : growth processes and Quaternary modifications / David G. Moore and Joseph R. Curray -- Evolution of the western Appalachian continental margin / John M. Bird -- Erosion and deposition along the mid-Permian intracratonic basin margin, Guadalupe Mountains, Texas / John C. Harms and Lloyd C. Pray -- Aulacogens and their genetic relation to geosynclines, with a Proterozoic example from Great Slave Lake, Canada / Paul Hoffman, John F. Dewey and Kevin Burke -- Submarine canyons and fan valleys : factors affecting growth patterns of deep-sea fans / William R. Normark -- Depositional trends of modern and ancient deep-sea fans / C. Hans Nelson and Tor H. Nilsen -- Examples of ancient deep-sea fan deposits from circum-Mediterranean geosynclines / Emiliano Mutti --^
• Ancient submarine canyons and fan valleys / J.H. McD. Whitaker -- Ancient submarine canyons of the Carpathian miogeosyncline / Frantisek Picha -- The odd rocks of mountain belts / A.G. Fischer -- Alpine, Mediterranean, and central Atlantic Mesozoic facies in relation to the early evolution of the Tethys / Daniel Bernoulli and Hugh C. Jenkyns -- Paleozoic and Mesozoic geosynclinal volcanism in the Japanese islands and associated chert sedimentation / Kametoshi Kanmera -- Paleozoic marginal ocean basin-volcanic arc systems in the Cordilleran foldbelt / Michael Churkin Jr. -- Sedimentary sequence in modern Pacific trenches and the deformed circum-Pacific eugeosyncline / D.W. Scholl and M.S. Marlow -- Cenozoic sedimentary framework of the Gorda-Juan de Fuca plate and adjacent continental margin -- a review / L.D. Kulm and G.A. Fowler -- Sedimentation within and beside ancient and modern magmatic arcs / William R. Dickinson --^
• Modern flysch sedimentation in a Mediterranean island arc setting / Daniel Jean Stanley -- Northern Alpine molasse and similar Cenozoic sequences of southern Europe / F.B. Van Houten -- Evolution of successor basins in the Canadian Cordillera / G.H. Eisbacher -- Sedimentation along the San Andreas Fault, California / John C. Crowell -- Lithogenesis and geotectonics : the significance of compositional variation in flysch arenites (graywackes) / Keith A.W. Crook -- Migration of ancient arc-trench systems / Hakuyu Okada -- Melanges and their distinction from olistostromes / K.J. Hsü -- Ophiolites, melanges, blueschists, and ignimbrites : early Caledonian subduction in Wales? / Dennis S. Wood -- Origin of Franciscan melanges in northern California / M.C. Blake Jr. and David L. Jones -- Ophiolite generation and emplacement : a key to Alpine evolution / John F. Dewey -- Eugeosynclinal basement and a collage concept of orogenic belts / James Helwig --^
• Geosynclines, flysch, and melanges / Marshall Kay.

LCCN

^^^74175858^//r89

OCLC

• 1010296
• SCSB-10105514

Owning Institutions

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