Research Catalog

Title

The Mediterranean Sea; a natural sedimentation laboratory. Edited by Daniel J. Stanley. Assisted by Gilbert Kelling and Yehezkiel Weiler.

Author

Symposium on the Mediterranean Sea, Heidelberg, 1971.

Publication

Stroudsburg, Pa., Dowden, Hutchinson & Ross, [1973, ©1972]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Stanley, Daniel J.
• International Sedimentological Congress, 8th, Heidelberg, 1971.

Description

xvi, 765 pages illustrations, color map (folded in pocket); 29 cm

Subject

• Marine sediments > Mediterranean Sea > Congresses
• Geology > Mediterranean Sea > Congresses
• Ocean bottom > Mediterranean Sea > Congresses
• Ocean bottom
• Geology
• Marine sediments
• Mediterranean Sea

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Note

• English or French; each paper with English and French résumés.
• The majority of the papers were presented at the Symposium on the Mediterranean Sea, held Aug. 30-Sept. 1, 1971, during the 8th International Sedimentological Congress.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies.

Contents

A new bathymetric chart and physiography of the Mediterranean Sea / T.G. Carter [and others] -- Caractères hydrologiques et circulation des eaux en Méditerranée / H. Lacombe and P. Tchernia -- Speculations concerning bottom circulation in the Mediterranean Sea / A.R. Miller -- Supply of fluvial sediment to the Mediterranean during the last 20,000 years / C. Vita-Finzi -- Evolution de la sédimantation pendant le Néogène en Méditerranée d'après les forages JOIDES-DSDP / W.D. Nesteroff [and others] -- Ostracodes as indicators of threshold depth in the Mediterranean during the Pliocene / R.H. Benson -- The structure and stratigraphy of the Tyrrhenian Sea / A. Fabbri and R. Selli -- Age and nature of the pan-Mediterranean subbottom reflector M / P.E. Biscaye, W.B.F. Ryan and F.C. Wezel -- The Neogene series drilled by the Mistral no. 1 well in the Gulf of Lion / P.F. Burollet and Ph. Dufaure -- Quaternary sedimentation in the Mediterranean region controlled by tectonics, paleoclimates and sea level / R.W. Fairbridge -- Donnés micropaléontologiques et paléoclimatiques d'après des sédiments profonds de Méditerranée / L. Blanc-Vernet -- Quaternary eastern Mediterranean sediments : micropaleontology and climatic record / Y. Herman -- Stratigraphy of late Quaternary sediments in the eastern Mediterranean / W.B.F. Ryan -- Les dépôts quaternaires immergés du Golfe de Fréjus (Var), France / G. Bellaiche -- The Gulf of La Spezia, Italy : a case history of seismic-sedimentologic correlation / L.R. Breslau and H.E. Edgerton -- Eustatic and tectonic factors in the relative vertical displacement of the Aegean coast / N.C. Flemming -- Mediterranean beachrock cementation : marine precipitation of Mg-calcite / T. Alexandersson -- Observations sur la sédimentation bioclastique en quelques points de la marge continentale de la Méditerranée / J.J. Blanc -- Morphology and carbonate sedimentation on shallow banks in the Alboran Sea / J.D. Milliman, Y. Weiler and D.J. Stanley -- Recent biogenic calcareous sedimentation on the Algerian continental shelf / J.P. Caulet -- Recent sedimentation and oolite formation in the Ras Matarma Lagoon, Gulf of Suez / E. Sass, Y. Weiler and A. Katz --Les minéraux lourds de sables de plages et de canyons sous-marins de la Méditerranée français / S. Duplaix -- Essai d'interprétation hydrodynamique de la granulométrie des sédiments sableux, plage de Pramousquier, (Var) France / C. Degiovanni -- Répartition des sédiments marins près de Livourne (Mer Ligure) / G. Fierro, G.B. Piacentino and G. Ricciardi -- Contribution to recent sedimentation on the shelves of the southern Adriatic, Ionian and Syrtis seas / F. Fabricius and P. Schmidt-Thomé -- A study of grain morphology and heavy mineral composition in the sedimentary sequence of the U.A.R. / M.M. Kholief -- Principal types of recent bottom sediments in the Mediterranean Sea : their mineralogy and geochemistry / E.M. Emelyanov -- Sur la sédimentation argileuse profonde en Méditerranée / H. Chamley -- Geotechnical properties of submarine sediments, Mediterranean Sea / G.H. Keller and D.N. Lambert -- Suspended matter in the Mediterranean Sea / E.M. Emelyanov and K.M. Shimkus -- Mineralogical differentiation of sediments dispersed from the Po Delta / B.W. Nelson -- Origin and dispersal of Holocene sediments in the eastern Mediterranean Sea / K. Venkatarathnam, P.E. Biscaye and W.B.F. Ryan -- Données du sondages sismique continu concernant la sédimentation plio-quaternaire en Méditerranée nord-occidentale / G. Alla [and others] -- Sedimentation in the vicinity of the Strait of Gibraltar / G . Kelling and D.J. Stanley -- Western Alboran Sea : sediment dispersal, ponding and reversal of currents / T.C. Huang and D.I. Stanley -- Aspects of late Quaternary sedimentation on the Algerian precontinent and in the adjacent Algiers-Balearic Basin / L. Leclaire -- Histoire sédimentaire de la region au large de la Côte d'Azur / G. Pautot -- Sedimentation in the Tyrrhenian Sea / H. Charnock, A.I. Rees and N. Hamilton -- Holocene stages of oxygen depletion in deep waters of the Adriatic Sea / L.M.J.U van Straaten -- Undisturbed large-diameter cores from the Strait of Otranto / R. Hesse and U. von Rad -- Submarine canyons on the central continental shelf of Lebanon / T.R. Goedicke -- Les forages DSDP en Méditerranée (leg 13) : reconnaissance isotopique / J.-Ch. Fontes, R. Létolle and W.D. Nesteroff -- Preliminary isotopic investigations of samples from deep-sea drilling cruise to the Mediterranean / R.M. Lloyd and K.J. Hsü -- Etude sédimentologique et géochimique de quelques dépôts quaternaires récents du plateau continental au large du Roussillon (Golfe du Lion) / G.A. Cauwet, F.Y. Gadel and A.A. Monaco -- Submarine iron deposits from the Mediterranean Sea / E. Bonatti, J. Honnorez, O. Joensuu and H. Rydell -- Sedimentology and pollution in the Mediterranean : a discussion / A. Brambati -- Guidelines for future sediment-related research in the Mediterranean Sea / D.J. Stanley [and others].

ISBN

• 0879330104
• 9780879330101

LCCN

72088984

OCLC

• ocm00605113
• 605113
• SCSB-286564

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library