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Title

Geology of the United States' seafloor : the view from GLORIA / edited by James V. Gardner, Michael E. Field, David C. Twichell.

Publication

New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996.

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Additional Authors

• Field, Michael E.
• Gardner, James V.
• Twichell, David C.

Description

xii, 364 p. : ill.; 30 cm.

Summary

Digital images of the entire deep-water area of the seafloor within the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of the United States have been systematically collected since 1984. They have been acquired by the long-range sidescan sonar instrument GLORIA. This spectacular dataset has provided a new insight into the structural evolution of the seafloor and the sedimentary processes that have modified it. Geology of the United States' Seafloor presents new, definitive studies of the seafloor adjacent to the United States - the West Coast, East Coast, Alaskan margin, Gulf of Mexico, and Caribbean - from GLORIA imagery, complementary seismic profiling, and magnetic surveys. Detailed geologic interpretation of the images has not been presented before, nor has any study included so comprehensive an area. Much new knowledge has been garnered from these GLORIA studies, and new concepts have emerged. For example, the development of submarine fans, the formation of submarine canyons, sediment failure along continental slopes, and the tectonics of plate margins are now all more clearly understood. This book presents this information and also includes chapters on the GLORIA system and on the processing of the sidescan sonar images.

Subject

• Continental margins > United States
• Economic zones (Law of the sea) > United States
• Geology > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 352-353) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Foreword / Gary W. Hill -- Introduction / James V. Gardner -- Pt. I. The GLORIA System and Data Processing. 1. The USGS GLORIA System / Michael L. Somers. 2. Processing and Manipulating GLORIA Sidescan Sonar Images / Pat S. Chavez, Jr., Jeff A. Anderson, Stuart C. Sides and JoAnn Bowell -- Pt. II. U. S. East Coast EEZ / James M. Robb, William P. Dillon, Dennis W. O'Leary and Peter Popenoe. 3. The Timing and Spatial Relations of Submarine Canyon Erosion and Mass Movement on the New England Continental Slope and Rise / Dennis W. O'Leary. 4. Characteristics of the Continental Slope and Rise off North Carolina from GLORIA and Seismic-Reflection Data: The Interaction of Downslope and Contour Current Processes / Peter Popenoe and William P. Dillon -- Pt. III. Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean EEZ / David C. Twichell, Kathryn M. Scanlon and William P. Dillon. 5. Breaching the Levee of a Channel on the Mississippi Fan / David C. Twichell, William C. Schwab, Neil H. Kenyon and Homa J. Lee. 6. Morphology of Carbonate Escarpments as an Indicator of Erosional Processes / David C. Twichell, William P. Dillon, Charles K. Paull and Neil H. Kenyon. 7. Sedimentary Processes in the Salt Deformation Province of the Texas-Louisiana Continental Slope / David C. Twichell and Catherine Delorey. 8. Sedimentary Processes in a Tectonically Active Region: Puerto Rico North Insular Slope / Kathryn M. Scanlon and Douglas G. Masson. 9. A Review of the Tectonic Problems of the Strike-Slip Northern Boundary of the Caribbean Plate and Examination by GLORIA / William P. Dillon, N. Terence Edgar, Kathryn M. Scanlon and Dwight F. Coleman -- Pt. IV. U.S. West Coast EEZ / James V. Gardner and Michael E. Field. 10. Discrimination of Fluid Seeps on the Convergent Oregon Continental Margin with GLORIA Imagery / Bobb Carson, Valerie Paskevich, Erol Seke and Mark L. Holmes.
• 11. A Meandering Channel at the Base of the Gorda Escarpment / David A. Cacchione, David E. Drake and James V. Gardner. 12. The Morphology, Processes, and Evolution of Monterey Fan: A Revisit / James V. Gardner, Robert G. Bohannon, Michael E. Field and Douglas G. Masson. 13. Ground-Truth Studies of West Coast and Gulf of Mexico Submarine Fans / Homa J. Lee, Robert E. Kayen, Brian D. Edwards, Michael E. Field, James V. Gardner, William C. Schwab and David C. Twichell. 14. Morphology of Small Submarine Fans, Inner California Continental Borderland / Brian D. Edwards, Michael E. Field and Neil H. Kenyon -- Pt. V. Alaskan EEZ / Herman A. Karl and Paul R. Carlson. 15. Sediment Pathways in Gulf of Alaska from Beach to Abyssal Plain / Paul R. Carlson, Andrew J. Stevenson, Terry R. Bruns, Dennis M. Mann and Quentin Huggett. 16. Sedimentation Along the Fore-Arc Region of the Aleutian Island Arc, Alaska / Max R. Dobson, Herman A. Karl and Tracy L. Vallier. 17. Aleutian Basin of the Bering Sea: Styles of Sedimentation and Canyon Development / Herman A. Karl, Paul R. Carlson and James V. Gardner. 18. Geology of the Kula Paleo-Plate, North Pacific Ocean / Tracy L. Vallier, Carlos A. Mortera-Gutierrez, Herman A. Karl, Douglas G. Masson, Libby Prueher and Thomas E. Chase.

ISBN

052143310X (hc)

LCCN

^^^95046492^

OCLC

33442686

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library