Neritic Carbonate Sediments in a Temperate Realm Southern Australia /

• Main Authors: James, Noel P. (Author), Bone, Yvonne (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Geology.; Sedimentology.; Ecology.; Marine sciences.; Freshwater.; Earth Sciences.; Marine & Freshwater Sciences.

This book is the first comprehensive documentation and interpretation of modern neritic carbonate sediments on the southern Australian continental margin, the largest cool-water carbonate depositional system on the globe. The approach is classical but the information is new.  A brief chapter of intr...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Setting
• 3 The Pleistocene Record
• 4 The Neritic Carbonate Factory
• 5 Marginal Marine Deposystems
• 6 Neritic Sedimentary Facies
• 7 Neritic Depositional Environments
• 8 The Southwestern Shelf
• 9 The South Australian Sea
• 10 The Southeastern Continental Margin
• 11 Diagenesis
• 12 Summary & Synthesis
• References
• Appendices
• Subject Index.