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9781444304428

Sedimentary Processes, Environments and Basins: A Tribute to Peter Friend (Special Publication 38 of the IAS)

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    9781444304428

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    1444304429

  • Format: eBook
  • Copyright: 2009-03-01
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

For several decades Peter Friend has been one of the leading figures in sedimentary geology and throughout that time he has helped scores of other people by supervising doctoral students, collaborating with colleagues, especially in developing countries, and selflessly sharing ideas with fellow geologists. This collection of papers is a survey of the research frontier in basin dynamics, a field Peter Friend helped initiate, and a token of thanks from people who have benefited from an association with Peter during their careers. The papers in this book fall into four themes - Tectonics and sedimentation, Landscape evolution and provenance, Depositional systems and Fluvial sedimentation - which reflect Peter's research interests and are all important areas of current research in sedimentary geology. There are both case studies and review articles on these themes which reflect recent work, but the collection can also be considered to be a 'sampler' of sedimentary geology for anyone with broad interests in the Earth sciences.

Table of Contents

Sedimentary processes, environments and basins - a tribute to Peter Friend: introduction
Basin-fill incision, Rio Grande and Gulf of Corinth rifts: convergent response to climatic and tectonic drivers
Drainage responses to oblique and lateral thrust ramps: a review
Stratigraphic architecture, sedimentology and structure of the Vouraikos Gilbert-type fan delta, Gulf of Corinth, Greece
Anatomy of anticlines, piggy-back basins and growth strata: a case study from the Limón fold-and-thrust belt, Costa Rica
Tectono-sedimentary phases of the latest Cretaceous and Cenozoic compressive evolution of the Algarve margin
Late Cenozoic basin opening in relation to major strike-slip faulting along the Porto-Coimbra-Tomar fault zone northern Portugal
Effects of transverse structural lineaments on the Neogene-Quaternary basins of Tuscany (inner Northern Apennines, Italy)
Facies architecture and cyclicity of an Upper Carboniferous carbonate ramp developed in a Variscan piggy-back basin
Peritidal carbonate-evaporite sedimentation coeval to normal fault segmentation during the Triassic-Jurassic transition, Iberian Chain
A shallow-basin model for 'saline giants' based on isostasy-driven subsidence
Single-crystal dating and the detrital record of orogenesis
Modelling and comparing the Caledonian and Permo-Triassic erosion surfaces with present-day topography across Highland Scotland: implications for landscape inheritance
40Ar/39Ar dating of detrital white mica as a complementary tool for provenance analysis: a case study from the Cenozoic Qaidam Basin (China)
Provenance of Quaternary sands in Algarve (Portugal) revealed by U-Pb ages of detrital zircon
Anatomy of a fluvial lowstand wedge: the Avilé Member of the Agrio Formation (Hauterivian) in central Neuquén Basin (northwest Neuquén province), Argentina
Anatomy of a transgressive systems tract revealed by integrated sedimentological and palaeoecological study: the Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto Basin, northeastern Sicily, Italy
Late Cretaceous to early Eocene sedimentation in the Sinop-Boyabat Basin, north-central Turkey: a deep-water turbiditic system evolving into littoral carbonate platform
Facies anatomy of a sand-rich channelized turbiditic system: the Eocene Kusuri Formation in the Sinop Basin, north-central Turkey
River morphologies and palaeodrainages of western Africa
Floodplain sediments of the Tagus River, Portugal: assessing avulsion, channel migration and human impact
Creation and preservation of channel-form sand bodies in an experimental alluvial system
Fluvial systems in desiccating endorheic basins
Anatomy and architecture of ephemeral, ribbon-like channel-fill deposits of the Caspe Formation (upper Oligocene to Lower Miocene of the Ebro Basin, Spain)
Index
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