| Titre : |
Cyclic sedimentation |
| Type de document : |
texte imprimé |
| Auteurs : |
P. McL. D. (Peter McLaren Donald) Duff ; Anthony Hallam (1933-....) ; Ewart Kendall Walton |
| Editeur : |
Amsterdam [Pays-Bas] : Elsevier |
| Année de publication : |
1967 |
| Collection : |
Developments in sedimentology num. 10 |
| Importance : |
280 p. |
| Présentation : |
ill. |
| Format : |
25 cm |
| Note générale : |
Bibliogr. p. [253]-270 |
| Catégories : |
Sédimentation (Géologie) et dépôt
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| Index. décimale : |
551.3 03 |
| Résumé : |
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| Note de contenu : |
PREFACE -- Ch. 1. INTRODUCTION: Cycles, rhythms and cyclothems -- Nomenclature of cycles -- Methodology -- Classification and description -- Ch. 2. CYCLES IN FLUVIAL REGIMES: Cycles in the Old Red Sandstone of Britain -- Molasse of Switzerland -- Fluvio-lacustrine coal-bearing sequences of Gondwanaland -- Witwatersrand System of South Africa -- Ch. 3. CYCLES IN LACUSTRINE REGIMES: Introduction -- Glacial varved clays -- Non-glacial lakes -- Ch. 4. TRANSITIONAL REGIMES, I: NORTH AMERICA: United States of America -- Canada -- Theories of origin -- Ch. 5. TRANSITIONAL REGIMES, II: EUROPE: Great Britain -- Continental Europe -- Discussion -- Ch. 6. EPICONTINENTAL MARINE ENVIRONMENTS, I: Calcareous and argillaceous rocks: Cycles composed of differing types of limestone -- Limestone-dolomite cycles -- Cycles composed of limestones and argillaceous beds -- Ch. 7. EPICONTINENTAL MARINE ENVIRONMENTS, II: Cycles with significant quantities of sandstone. ironstone and phosphorite: minor cycles with bituminous laminae -- Clay-sandstone-limestone cycles. Clay-sandstone cycles -- Ironstone-bearing cycles: Phosphorite-bearing cycles -- Minor cycles with bituminous laminae -- Ch. 8. EPICONTINENTAL MARINE ENVIRONMENTS, III: Evaporite cycles: Major cycles with subsidiary evaporites -- Cycles with dominant evaporites -- Evaporite varves and solar cycles -- Ch. 9. FLYSCH: Modal cycles and composite sequences: Ideal (model) cycle -- Megarhythms -- Ch. 10. SEDIMENTARY CYCLES AND FAUNAL CHANGE: Faunal succession within major sedimentary cycles -- Faunal change between major sedimentary cycles -- Ch. 11. GENERAL CONCLUSIONS: Sedimentary control -- Tectonic control -- Eustatic control -- Climatic control -- Cycles and time -- REFERENCES -- INDEX |
Cyclic sedimentation [texte imprimé] / P. McL. D. (Peter McLaren Donald) Duff ; Anthony Hallam (1933-....) ; Ewart Kendall Walton . - Amsterdam (Pays-Bas) : Elsevier, 1967 . - 280 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. - ( Developments in sedimentology; 10) . Bibliogr. p. [253]-270
| Catégories : |
Sédimentation (Géologie) et dépôt
|
| Index. décimale : |
551.3 03 |
| Résumé : |
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| Note de contenu : |
PREFACE -- Ch. 1. INTRODUCTION: Cycles, rhythms and cyclothems -- Nomenclature of cycles -- Methodology -- Classification and description -- Ch. 2. CYCLES IN FLUVIAL REGIMES: Cycles in the Old Red Sandstone of Britain -- Molasse of Switzerland -- Fluvio-lacustrine coal-bearing sequences of Gondwanaland -- Witwatersrand System of South Africa -- Ch. 3. CYCLES IN LACUSTRINE REGIMES: Introduction -- Glacial varved clays -- Non-glacial lakes -- Ch. 4. TRANSITIONAL REGIMES, I: NORTH AMERICA: United States of America -- Canada -- Theories of origin -- Ch. 5. TRANSITIONAL REGIMES, II: EUROPE: Great Britain -- Continental Europe -- Discussion -- Ch. 6. EPICONTINENTAL MARINE ENVIRONMENTS, I: Calcareous and argillaceous rocks: Cycles composed of differing types of limestone -- Limestone-dolomite cycles -- Cycles composed of limestones and argillaceous beds -- Ch. 7. EPICONTINENTAL MARINE ENVIRONMENTS, II: Cycles with significant quantities of sandstone. ironstone and phosphorite: minor cycles with bituminous laminae -- Clay-sandstone-limestone cycles. Clay-sandstone cycles -- Ironstone-bearing cycles: Phosphorite-bearing cycles -- Minor cycles with bituminous laminae -- Ch. 8. EPICONTINENTAL MARINE ENVIRONMENTS, III: Evaporite cycles: Major cycles with subsidiary evaporites -- Cycles with dominant evaporites -- Evaporite varves and solar cycles -- Ch. 9. FLYSCH: Modal cycles and composite sequences: Ideal (model) cycle -- Megarhythms -- Ch. 10. SEDIMENTARY CYCLES AND FAUNAL CHANGE: Faunal succession within major sedimentary cycles -- Faunal change between major sedimentary cycles -- Ch. 11. GENERAL CONCLUSIONS: Sedimentary control -- Tectonic control -- Eustatic control -- Climatic control -- Cycles and time -- REFERENCES -- INDEX |
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