Author : John B. Anderson
Publisher : SEPM Soc for Sed Geology
Page : pages
File Size : 27,36 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Continental margins
ISBN : 9781565762152
Author : John B. Anderson
Publisher : SEPM Soc for Sed Geology
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 34,2 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Science
ISBN :
Late Quaternary stratigraphic evolution of the north Gulf of Mexico margin : a synthesis -- High-resolution stratigraphy of a sandy, ramp-type margin, Apalachicola, Florida -- Late Quaternary stratigraphic evolution of the Alabama-west Florida outher continental shelf -- late Quaternary geology of the northeastern Gulf of Mexico shelf : sedimentology, depositional history, and ancient analogs of a major shelf sand sheet of teh modern transgressive systems tract -- Sequence stratigraphy of a continental margin subjected to low-energy and low-sediment-supply environmental boundary conditions : late Pleistocene-Holocene deposition offshore Alabama -- Late Quaternary deposition and paleobathymetry at the shelf-slope transition, ancestral Mobile River delta complex, northeastern Gulf of Mexico -- Depositional architecture of the Lagniappe Delta : sediment characteristics, timing of depositional events, and temporal relations with adjacent shelf-edge deltas -- Foraminiferal biostratigraphy and paleoenvironments of the Pleistocene Lagniappe Delta and related section, northeastern Gulf of Mexico -- Late Quaternary stratigraphic evolution of the west Lousiana-east Texas continental shelf -- Late Quaternary Brazos and Colorado deltas, offshore Texas, their evolution and the factors that controlled their deposition -- Late Quaternary evolution of the wave-storm-dominated Central Texas Shelf -- Late Quaternary evolution of the Rio Grande Delta.
Author : John W. Snedden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 43,93 MB
Release : 2019-11-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 110841902X
A comprehensive and richly illustrated overview of the Gulf of Mexico Basin, including its reservoirs, source rocks, tectonics and evolution.
Author : Zi-Qiang Chen
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 13,32 MB
Release : 2010
Category :
ISBN :
This study attempts to address some of the major issues in our understanding of late Quaternary climate and the surficial geologic processes that are influenced by climate change. Based on several lines of research, four discrete but related chapters herein address problems related to the Quaternary geology of the study area, the coast and inner margin of the northeastern Gulf of Mexico.
Author : Cary Mock
Publisher : Newnes
Page : 3883 pages
File Size : 50,65 MB
Release : 2013-03-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 0444536426
The second revised edition of the Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science, Four Volume Set, provides both students and professionals with an up-to-date reference work on this important and highly varied area of research. There are lots of new articles, and many of the articles that appeared in the first edition have been updated to reflect advances in knowledge since 2006, when the original articles were written. The second edition will contain about 375 articles, written by leading experts around the world. This major reference work is richly illustrated with more than 3,000 illustrations, most of them in colour. Research in the Quaternary sciences has advanced greatly in the last 10 years, especially since topics like global climate change, geologic hazards and soil erosion were put high on the political agenda. This second edition builds upon its award-winning predecessor to provide the reader assured quality along with essential updated coverage Contains 357 broad-ranging articles (4310 pages) written at a level that allows undergraduate students to understand the material, while providing active researchers with a ready reference resource for information in the field. Facilitates teaching and learning The first edition was regarded by many as the most significant single overview of Quaternary science ever, yet Editor-in-Chief, Scott Elias, has managed to surpass that in this second edition by securing even more expert reviews whilst retaining his renowned editorial consistency that enables readers to navigates seamlessly from one unfamiliar topic to the next
Author : C. Herb Ward
Publisher : Springer
Page : 917 pages
File Size : 37,1 MB
Release : 2017-06-26
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1493934473
This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license. The Gulf of Mexico is an open and dynamic marine ecosystem rich in natural resources but heavily impacted by human activities, including agricultural, industrial, commercial and coastal development. The Gulf of Mexico has been continuously exposed to petroleum hydrocarbons for millions of years from natural oil and gas seeps on the sea floor, and more recently from oil drilling and production activities located in the water near and far from shore. Major accidental oil spills in the Gulf are infrequent; two of the most significant include the Ixtoc I blowout in the Bay of Campeche in 1979 and the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in 2010. Unfortunately, baseline assessments of the status of habitats and biota in the Gulf of Mexico before these spills either were not available, or the data had not been systematically compiled in a way that would help scientists assess the potential short-term and long-term effects of such events. This 2-volume series compiles and summarizes thousands of data sets showing the status of habitats and biota in the Gulf of Mexico before the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. Volume 1 covers: water and sediment quality and contaminants in the Gulf; natural oil and gas seeps in the Gulf of Mexico; coastal habitats, including flora and fauna and coastal geology; offshore benthos and plankton, with an analysis of current knowledge on energy capture and energy flows in the Gulf; and shellfish and finfish resources that provide the basis for commercial and recreational fisheries.
Author :
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 7184 pages
File Size : 40,25 MB
Release : 2006-11-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 0080547826
The quaternary sciences constitute a dynamic, multidisciplinary field of research that has been growing in scientific and societal importance in recent years. This branch of the Earth sciences links ancient prehistory to modern environments. Quaternary terrestrial sediments contain the fossil remains of existing species of flora and fauna, and their immediate predecessors. Quaternary science plays an integral part in such important issues for modern society as groundwater resources and contamination, sea level change, geologic hazards (earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis), and soil erosion. With over 360 articles and 2,600 pages, many in full-color, the Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science provides broad ranging, up-to-date articles on all of the major topics in the field. Written by a team of leading experts and under the guidance of an international editorial board, the articles are at a level that allows undergraduate students to understand the material, while providing active researchers with the latest information in the field. Also available online via ScienceDirect (2006) – featuring extensive browsing, searching, and internal cross-referencing between articles in the work, plus dynamic linking to journal articles and abstract databases, making navigation flexible and easy. For more information, pricing options and availability visit www.info.sciencedirect.com. 360 individual articles written by prominent international authorities, encompassing all important aspects of quaternary science Each entry provides comprehensive, in-depth treatment of an overview topic and presented in a functional, clear and uniform layout Reference section provides guidence for further research on the topic Article text supported by full-color photos, drawings, tables, and other visual material Writing level is suited to both the expert and non-expert
Author : R. J. Davies
Publisher : Geological Society of London
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,90 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781862392236
We are poised to embark on a new era of discovery in the study of geomorphology. The discipline has a long and illustrious history, but in recent years an entirely new way of studying landscapes and seascapes has been developed. It involves the use of 3D seismic data. Just as CAT scans allow medical staff to view our anatomy in 3D, seismic data now allows Earth scientists to do what the early geomorphologists could only dream of - view tens and hundreds of square kilometres of the Earth's subsurface in 3D and therefore see for the first time how landscapes have evolved through time. This volume demonstrates how Earth scientists are starting to use this relatively new tool to study the dynamic evolution of a range of sedimentary environments.
Author : Felipe Alberto Lozano
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 32,6 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Geology
ISBN :
Optimal exploitation of deltaic reservoirs needs detailed facies and architectural element analysis as a base for a comprehensive geological model. To date, very few studies have evaluated regional shelf-margin deltaic systems using 3D seismic data and 3D seismic geomorphologic and seismic stratigraphic analysis. High-resolution 3D seismic data, covering an area of 8,000 km2 offshore Louisiana at the modern shelf edge of the central northern Gulf of Mexico, was used to reconstruct the distribution and evolution of the paleo-Mississippi shelf-margin deltaic system during the last full cycle of fall and rise in sea level, which spans the last 125,000 years. Three-dimensional seismic geomorphological analysis was complemented with computed seismic attributes, including coherence, curvature, spectral components, sweetness, and amplitude gradient, with the objective of identifying shelf-margin geological features not typically observed in seismic profiles. The results show that salt tectonism in the Gulf of Mexico controlled the morphology of the shelf and the slope, forcing the paleo-Mississippi deltaic system to split, and concentrate its progradation and deposition in four separate along-strike salt-withdrawal minibasins. Each minibasin shows different deltaic constructional patterns. Progradation and aggradation patterns vary from minibasin to minibasin due to the response of the sediment supplied by the paleo-Mississippi delta, variations on sea level, the morphology of the seafloor, the arrival angle when the delta reaches the upper slope minibasin, and the shape of the minibasin. The 3D reconstruction of the system shows lateral variation of the deltaic processes from wave- to fluvial-dominated; wave-dominated deltaic strandplains were identified in the western minibasins and fluvial distributary channels were recognized in the eastern minibasins. This research highlights the importance of lowstand wave-dominated deltaic strandplains as important elements for the transport of sediment from the shelf to the slope in a salt-controlled setting like the Gulf of Mexico. The fluvial dominated shelf-margin delta is also related to direct transfer of sediment from the shelf to the slope
Author : Wolfgang Schlager
Publisher : SEPM Soc for Sed Geology
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 38,39 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Science
ISBN : 1565761324
Sedimentology and stratigraphy are neighbors yet distinctly separate entities within the earth sciences. Sedimentology searches for the common traits of sedimentary rocks regardless of age as it reconstructs environments and processes of deposition and erosion from the sediment record. Stratigraphy, by contrast, concentrates on changes with time, on measuring time and correlating coeval events. Sequence stratigraphy straddles the boundary between the two fields. This book, dedicated to carbonate rocks, approaches sequence stratigraphy from its sedimentologic background. This book attempts to communicate by combining different specialities and different lines of reasoning, and by searching for principles underlying the bewildering diversity of carbonate rocks. It provides enough general background, in introductory chapters and appendices, to be easily digestible for sedimentologists and stratigraphers as well as earth scientists at large.
