Deep-Sea Sediments: Volume 63

Deep-Sea Sediments focuses on the sedimentary processes operating within modern and ancient deep-sea environments. Individual chapters track the path of sedimentary particles from continental erosion or production in the marine realm, to transport into the deep sea, to final deposition on the sea floor. The relationships between depositional environment and endobenthic organisms, as well as early diagenetic processes at and within the deep-sea floor, are examined. Changes in sea-water chemistry, major innovations in organism evolution, and changes in external controls on sedimentation and productivity are discussed in the context of overarching trends in ocean history.

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Ch. 1 Introduction
Ch. 2 Sedimentary Processes and their Deposits
Ch. 3 Contour Currents and Contourite Drifts
Ch. 4 Pelagic and Hemipelagic deposits
Ch. 5 Hemipelagic Advection and Periplatform Sedimentation
Ch. 6 Benthic Deep Sea Carbonates: Reefs and Seeps:
Ch. 7 Volcaniclastic Processes and Deposits in the Deep-Sea
Ch. 8 Deep-Sea Ichnology: the Relationships Between Depositional Environment and Endobenthic Organisms
Ch. 9 Diagenesis
Ch. 10 Industrial Application of Deep-Sea Sediments
Ch. 11 Mesozoic Pelagic Sediments - Archives for Ocean and Climate History
Ch. 12 Climate Records of Deep-Sea Sediments: Towards the Ice House