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" Extreme depositional environments : "
edited by Marjorie A. Chan and Allen W. Archer
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BL
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701176
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b523365
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Extreme depositional environments : : mega end members in geologic time /\ edited by Marjorie A. Chan and Allen W. Archer
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| Publication Statement
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Boulder, CO :: Geological Society of America,, [2003]
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, ©2003
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| Series Statement
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Special paper ;; 370
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iv, 281 pages :: illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ;; 28 cm
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0813723701
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: 9780813723709
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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Introduction : a look at extreme depositional systems / Marjorie A. Chan and Allen W. Archer -- Timing of late Paleozoic glaciation in Gondwana : was glaciation responsible for the development of northern hemisphere cyclotherms? / John L. Isbell [and others] -- Subglacial outburst floods and extreme sedimentary events in the Labrador Sea / John Shaw and Jerome-Etienne Lesemann -- Limits on extreme eolian systems : Sahara of Mauritania and Jurassic Navajo sandstone examples / Gary Kocurek -- Quaternary loess-paleosol sequences as examples of climate driven sedimentary extremes / Daniel R. Muhs and E. Arthur Bettis III -- Lessons from large lake systems : thresholds, non-linearity, and strange attractors / Kevin M. Bohacs, Alan R. Carroll, and Jack E. Neal -- Organic carbon burial by large Permian lakes, northwest China / Alan R. Carroll and Marwan A. Wartes -- Features and origin of the giant Cucomungo Canyon alluvial fan, Eureka Valley, California / Terence C. Blair -- Desmoinesian coal beds of the Eastern interior and surrounding basins : the largest tropical peat mines in Earth history / Stephen F. Greb [and others] -- Highest tides of the world / Allen W. Archer and Mary S. Hubbard -- Giant submarine canyons : is size any clue to their importance in the rock record? / William R. Normark and Paul R. Carlson -- Remnant-ocean submarine fans : largest sedimentary systems on Earth / Raymond V. Ingersoll, William R. Dickinson, and Stephan A. Graham -- Megareefs in Middle Devonian supergreenhouse climates / Paul Copper and Christopher Scotese -- Origin and evolution of large Precambrian iron formations / Bruce M. Simonson -- Extreme paleoceanographic conditions in a Paleozoic oceanic upwelling system : organic productivity and widespread phosphogenesis in the Permian Phosophoria Sea / Eric E. Hiatt and David A. Budd
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Geology, Stratigraphic
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Sedimentation and deposition
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| Dewey Classification
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551.3/03
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QE571.E97 2003
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Archer, Allen W., (Allen William),1952-
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Chan, Marjorie A
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