Extreme Depositional Environments: Mega End Members in Geologic Time (GSA Special Paper 370)

Extreme Depositional Environments: Mega End Members in Geologic Time......Page 1
ISBN 0-8137-2370-1......Page 2
1. Introduction: A look at extreme depositional systems......Page 3
2. Timing of late Paleozoic glaciation in Gondwana: Was glaciation responsible for the development of northern hemisphere cyclothems?......Page 7
3. Subglacial outburst floods and extreme sedimentary events in the Labrador Sea......Page 27
4. Limits on extreme eolian systems: Sahara of Mauritania and Jurassic Navajo Sandstone examples......Page 45
5. Quaternary loess-paleosol sequences as examples of climate-driven sedimentary extremes......Page 55
6. Lessons from large lake systems— Thresholds, nonlinearity, and strange attractors......Page 77
7. Organic carbon burial by large Permian lakes, northwest China......Page 93
8. Features and origin of the giant Cucomungo Canyon alluvial fan, Eureka Valley, California......Page 107
9. Desmoinesian coal beds of the Eastern Interior and surrounding basins: The largest tropical peat mires in Earth history......Page 129
10. Highest tides of the world......Page 153
11. Giant submarine canyons: Is size any clue to their importance in the rock record?......Page 177
12. Remnant-ocean submarine fans: Largest sedimentary systems on Earth......Page 193
13. Megareefs in Middle Devonian supergreenhouse climates......Page 211
14. Origin and evolution of large Precambrian iron formations......Page 233
15. Extreme paleoceanographic conditions in a Paleozoic oceanic upwelling system: Organic productivity and widespread phosphogenesis in the Permian Phosphoria Sea......Page 247
Back cover / Contents......Page 267