Submarine Slope Systems: No. 244 (Submarine Slope Systems: Processes and Products) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1862391777 ISBN 13: 9781862391772

Publisher: Geological Society, 2005

Synopsis

Submarine slopes provide the critical link between shallow-water and deep-water sedimentary environments. They accumulate a sensitive record of sediment supply, accommodation creation/destruction, and tectonic processes during basin filling. There is a complex stratigraphic response to the interplay between parameters that control the evolution of submarine slope systems, e.g. slope gradient, topographic complexity, sediment flux and calibre, base-level change, tectonic setting, and post-depositional sediment remobilization processes. The increased understanding of submarine slope systems has been driven partly by the discovery of large hydrocarbon fields in morphologically complex slope settings, such as the Gulf of Mexico and offshore West Africa, and has led to detailed case studies and improved generic models for their evolution. This volume brings together research papers from modern, outcrop and subsurface settings to highlight these recent advances in understanding of the stratigraphic evolution of submarine slope systems.

Edition details

• Publisher: Geological Society
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1862391777
• ISBN 13: 9781862391772
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 232
• Editor: Hodgson D. M., Flint Stephen S.