Continental Margin Sedimentation: From Sediment Transport to Sequence Stratigraphy (Special Publication 37 of the IAS)

Continental Margin Sedimentation: From Sediment Transport to Sequence Stratigraphy is designed to provide a research resource for scientists studying modern and ancient continental margins, and to be an educational text for advanced students in sedimentology and stratigraphy. It summarizes and integrates our understanding of sedimentary processes and strata associated with fluvial dispersal systems on continental shelves and slopes. The contents deal with time-scales ranging from particle transport at one extreme to deep burial at the other. Insights are presented for margins in general, and with focus on a tectonically active margin (northern California) and a passive margin (New Jersey). These two examples allow detailed examination of the intricate relationships between a wide suite of sedimentary processes and their preserved stratigraphy. Observational studies document the processes and strata found on particular margins, and numerical models and laboratory experimentation provide a quantitative basis for extrapolation in time and space of insights about continental margin sedimentation.