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Quantitative Geology of Late Jurassic Epicontinental Sediments in the Jura Mountains of Switzerland [electronic resource] / by Reinhart A. Gygi.

By: Gygi, Reinhart A [author.].
Contributor(s): SpringerLink (Online service).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Basel : Springer Basel : Imprint: Birkhäuser, 2012Description: V, 216 p. 48 illus. online resource.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9783034801362.Subject(s): Geography | Geology | GeologyxMathematics | Sedimentology | Earth Sciences | Geology | Sedimentology | Quantitative GeologyDDC classification: 551 Online resources: Click here to access online
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.
In: Springer eBooksSummary: 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 topography, of vertical and lateral facies changes, of processes of sedimentation like aggradation and progradation, of compaction, of the great regional differences in rates of sedimentation and in isostatic equilibration of the lithosphere under load, and of concomitant synsedimentary tectonics. Regional variation in isostatic adjustment of the lithosphere to the increasing load of sediments is analyzed by means of time correlations based on a detailed biochronology of ammonites in combination with mineral stratigraphy using the comparatively stable clay mineral kaolinite, and with sequence stratigraphy.
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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.

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 topography, of vertical and lateral facies changes, of processes of sedimentation like aggradation and progradation, of compaction, of the great regional differences in rates of sedimentation and in isostatic equilibration of the lithosphere under load, and of concomitant synsedimentary tectonics. Regional variation in isostatic adjustment of the lithosphere to the increasing load of sediments is analyzed by means of time correlations based on a detailed biochronology of ammonites in combination with mineral stratigraphy using the comparatively stable clay mineral kaolinite, and with sequence stratigraphy.

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