Sedimentary processes, environments, and basins : a tribute to Peter Friend /

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Imprint:Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2007.
Description:vi, 636 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (chiefly col.) ; 28 cm.
Language:English
Series:Special publication no. 38 of the International Association of Sedimentologists
Special publication ... of the International Association of Sedimentologists ; no. 38
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6696224
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Other authors / contributors:Friend, P. F.
Nichols, Gary.
Williams, Ed, 1960-
Paola, C. (Chris)
ISBN:9781405179225 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1405179228 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Sedimentary processes, environments and basins - a tribute to Peter Friend: introduction
  • 2. Basin-fill incision, Rio Grande and Gulf of Corinth rifts: convergent response to climatic and tectonic drivers
  • 3. Drainage responses to oblique and lateral thrust ramps: a review
  • 4. Stratigraphic architecture, sedimentology and structure of the Vouraikos Gilbert-type fan delta, Gulf of Corinth, Greece
  • 5. Anatomy of anticlines, piggy-back basins and growth strata: a case study from the Lim??n fold-and-thrust belt, Costa Rica
  • 6. Tectono-sedimentary phases of the latest Cretaceous and Cenozoic compressive evolution of the Algarve margin (southern Portugal)
  • 7. Late Cenozoic basin opening in relation to major strike-slip faulting along the Porto-Coimbra-Tomar fault zone (northern Portugal)
  • 8. Effects of transverse structural lineaments on the Neogene-Quaternary basins of Tuscany (inner Northern Apennines, Italy)
  • 9. Facies architecture and cyclicity of an Upper Carboniferous carbonate ramp developed in a Variscan piggy-back basin (Cantabrian Mountains, northwest Spain)
  • 10. Peritidal carbonate-evaporite sedimentation coeval to normal fault segmentation during the Triassic-Jurassic transition, Iberian Chain
  • 11. A shallow-basin model for 'saline giants' based on isostasy-driven subsidence
  • 12. Single-crystal dating and the detrital record of orogenesis
  • 13. Modelling and comparing the Caledonian and Permo-Triassic erosion surfaces with present-day topography across Highland Scotland: implications for landscape inheritance
  • 14. 40Ar/39Ar dating of detrital white mica as a complementary tool for provenance analysis: a case study from the Cenozoic Qaidam Basin (China)
  • 15. Provenance of Quaternary sands in Algarve (Portugal) revealed by U-Pb ages of detrital zircon
  • 16. Anatomy of a fluvial lowstand wedge: the Avil_ Member of the Agrio Formation (Hauterivian) in central Neuqu_n Basin (northwest Neuqu_n province), Argentina
  • 17. Anatomy of a transgressive systems tract revealed by integrated sedimentological and palaeoecological study: the Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto Basin, northeastern Sicily, Italy
  • 18. Late Cretaceous to early Eocene sedimentation in the Sinop-Boyabat Basin, north-central Turkey: a deep-water turbiditic system evolving into littoral carbonate platform
  • 19. Facies anatomy of a sand-rich channelized turbiditic system: the Eocene Kusuri Formation in the Sinop Basin, north-central Turkey
  • 20. River morphologies and palaeodrainages of western Africa (Sahara and Sahel) during humid climatic conditions
  • 21. Floodplain sediments of the Tagus River