Carbonate Sedimentology and Sequence Stratigraphy

Carbonate Sedimentology and Sequence Stratigraphy
Author: Wolfgang Schlager
Publisher: SEPM Soc for Sed Geology
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2005
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1565761162

Sedimentology and stratigraphy are neighbors yet distinctly separate entities within the earth sciences. Sedimentology searches for the common traits of sedimentary rocks regardless of age as it reconstructs environments and processes of deposition and erosion from the sediment record. Stratigraphy, by contrast, concentrates on changes with time, on measuring time and correlating coeval events. Sequence stratigraphy straddles the boundary between the two fields. This book, dedicated to carbonate rocks, approaches sequence stratigraphy from its sedimentologic background. This book attempts to communicate by combining different specialities and different lines of reasoning, and by searching for principles underlying the bewildering diversity of carbonate rocks. It provides enough general background, in introductory chapters and appendices, to be easily digestible for sedimentologists and stratigraphers as well as earth scientists at large.

Sedimentary Geology of Mars

Sedimentary Geology of Mars
Author: John P. Grotzinger
Publisher:
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2012-01-01
Genre: DVDs
ISBN: 9781565763135

Often thought of as a volcanically dominated planet, the last several decades of Mars exploration have revealed with increasing clarity the role of sedimentary processes on the Red Planet. Data from recent orbiters have highlighted the role of sedimentary processes throughout the geologic evolution of Mars by providing evidence that such processes are preserved in a rock record that spans a period of over four billion years.

Sedimentary Geology

Sedimentary Geology
Author: Donald R. Prothero
Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education
Total Pages: 604
Release: 2013-12-30
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1464156565

Written for a first course in sedimentary geology or sedimentary rocks and stratigraphy (with only an introductory geology/physical geology course as a prerequisite), Prothero and Schwab shows students how sedimentary strata serves geologists as a continuous record of Earths history. The authors conversational style, and focus on the important concepts make the book highly accessible to an undergraduate audience.

Neogene Mammals

Neogene Mammals
Author: Spencer G. Lucas
Publisher: New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2008
Genre: Science
ISBN:

Neogene Mammals: New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 44

From the Puget Lowland to East of the Cascade Range

From the Puget Lowland to East of the Cascade Range
Author: Ralph A. Haugerud
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2017-10-13
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0813700493

"This volume contains guides that geographically focus on the Seattle, Washington, area within the Puget lowland, and also includes descriptions of trips in the Cascade Range and the region east of the Cascades"--

From Greenhouse to Icehouse

From Greenhouse to Icehouse
Author: Donald R. Prothero
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 558
Release: 2003
Genre: Eocene-Oligocene boundary
ISBN: 0231127162

The marine Eocene-Oligocene transition of 34 million years ago was a critical turning point in Earth's climatic history, when the warm, high-diversity "greenhouse" world of the early Eocene ceded to the glacial, "icehouse" conditions of the early Oligocene. This book surveys the advances in stratigraphic and paleontological research and isotopic analysis made since 1989 in regard to marine deposits around the world. In particular, it summarizes the high-resolution details of the so-called doubthouse interval (roughly 45 to 34 million years ago), which is critical to testing climatic and evolutionary hypotheses about the Eocene deterioration. The authors' goals are to discuss the latest information concerning climatic and oceanographic change associated with this transition and to examine geographic and taxonomic patterns in biotic turnover that provide clues about where, when, and how fast these environmental changes happened. They address a range of topics, including the tectonic and paleogeographic setting of the Paleogene; specific issues related to the stratigraphy of shelf deposits; advances in recognizing and correlating boundary sections; trends in the expression of climate change; and patterns of faunal and floral turnover. In the process, they produce a valuable synthesis of patterns of change by latitude and environment.