Quantitative Geology of Late Jurassic Epicontinental Sediments in the Jura Mountains of Switzerland

• Main Author: Gygi, Reinhart A. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel : Springer Basel : Imprint: Birkhäuser, 2012.
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Geology.; Geology > Statistical methods.; Sedimentology.; Earth Sciences.; Quantitative Geology.

The book summarizes about 40 years of the author’s research on sedimentary geology in an epicontinental (shelf) sea during the Late Jurassic in northern Switzerland. It presents a synopsis of the interplay of varying paleoclimate, of sea level variations, of varying water depth, of sea floor topogra...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Previous Work
• 2 What can be measured, calculated, or be quantified by comparison
• 3 Paleogeography and paleoclimate
• 4 Sedimentation
• 5 Sea level variations
• 6 Hermatypic coral assemblages: growth form, spatial distribution, and paleobathymetry
• 7 Age and time correlation of sediments
• 8 Rates of sedimentation varying between positive (net), zero, and negative (erosion)
• 9 Subsidence
• 10 Synsedimentary tectonics
• 11 Discussion and conclusions
• 12 Main conclusions
• References.