Continental shelves of the world : their evolution during the last glacio-eustatic cycle / edited by F.L. Chiocci (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) and A.R. Chivas (University of Wollongong, Australia).

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English
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  • London : The Geological Society, 2014.
  • ©2014
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343 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 32 cm

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    • Memoir (Geological Society of London) ; no. 41. [More in this series]
    • Geological Society memoir, 0435-4052 ; no. 41
    Summary note
    "The world's continental shelves are the sites of vast resources of food, energy and minerals, the exploitation of which is continuously increasing. Fluctuating global sea levels throughout the Quaternary period produced multiple transgressive and regressive cycles that profoundly affected and shaped these shelves. The complex interactions among climate, sea level, tectonics, oceanography and sediment input have formed distinctive sediment packages on each shelf and provide a guide to the interpretation of older shelf sequences throughout the geological record. This Memoir compiles studies on 23 selected shelves from all the continents, focusing on their evolution and examining the patterns of sedimentation during the past approximately 125,000 years. In addition to providing basic background information for each area, the chapters consider specific aspects of continental shelf research, from seismic stratigraphy to geomorphology, from palaeoceanography to palaeo sea-level reconstruction and from palaeontology to geochemistry."--Back cover.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
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    Also available in an electronic version.
    ISBN
    • 1862396868
    • 9781862396869
    LCCN
    2015458566
    OCLC
    896489626
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