Incised-Valley Systems:; origin and sedimentary sequences
by Dalrymple, Robert W. (editor); Boyd, Ron (geologist and editor); Zaitlin, Brian A. (editor)
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Tulsa, Okla: SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology), 1994. First edition (presumed; no earlier dates stated). Hardcover. Extremely gentle wear to spine foot and foot edges, extremely mild rubbing to corners, extremely light soiling to boards, bright pages in tight binding, else Near Fine(+).. Large red quarto, gilt to front board and spine, gilt illus to front board, iv, 391 pages, b&w illustrations; 29 cm. Out of print. Geology, United States, Science. Series: Special publication / SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology), #51. Contents: Introduction and general concepts. History of research, valley types and internal organization of incised-valley systems: introduction to the volume / Robert W. Dalrymple, Ron Boyd, and Brian A. Zaitlin. Origin, evolution and morphology of fluvial valleys / Stanley A. Schumm and Frank G. Ethridge. Constraints on riverine valley incision and the response to sea-level change based on fluid mechanics / Julian Thorne. The stratigraphic organization of incised-valley systems associated with relative sea-level changes / Brian A. Zaitlin, Robert W. Dalrymple, and Ron Boyd -- Segment 1 -- Transgressed, shelf valleys. Sea-level controls on the facies architecture of the Trinity/Sabine incised-valley system, Texas continental shelf / Mark A. Thomas and John B. Anderson. Stratigraphy of Mississippi-Alabama shelf and Mobile River incised-valley system / Jack L. Kindinger, Peter S. Balson, and James G. Flocks. Incised valleys and backstepping deltaic deposits in a foreland-basin setting, Torres Strait and Gulf of Papua, Australia / Peter T. Harris. Evolution of an incised-valley fill, the Pine Ridge sandstone of southeastern Wyoming, USA: systematic sedimentary response to relative sea-level change / Ole J. Martinsen. Ichnological aspects of incised valley fill sytems from the Viking formation to the western Canada sedimentary basin, Alberta, Canada / James A. MacEachern and S. George Pemberton. Control of estuarine valley-fill deposition by fluctuations of relative sea level, Cretaceous Bearpaw-Horseshoe Canyon transition, Drumheller, Alberta, Canada / R. Bruce Ainsworth and Roger G. Walker. Stratigraphy and depositional history within incised paleovalley fills and related facies, Douglas group (Missourian/Virgilian; upper carboniferous) of Kansas, U.S.A. / Allen W. Archer, William P. Lanier, and Howard R. Feldman. Evolution of lower Pennsylvanian estuarine facies within two adjacent paleovalleys, Illinois basin, Indiana / Erik P. Kvale and Mark L. Barnhill. Sequence stratigraphy of an incised-valley fill: the neoproterozoic seacliff sandstone, Adelaide geosyncline, South Australia / Ian A. Dyson and Christopher C. von der Borsch -- Segment 2 -- Transgressive-limit estuary. Transgressive facies and sequence architecture in mixed tide- and wave-dominated incised valleys: example from the Gironde estuary, France / George P. Allen and Henry W. Posamentier. Holocene estuary evolution--stratigraphic studies from southeastern Australia / Peter S. Roy. Stratigraphic response of wave-dominated estuaries to different relative sea-level and sediment-supply histories: quaternary case studies from Nova Scotia, Louisiana and eastern Australia / Scott L. Nichol, Ron Boyd and Shea Penland. Depositional model for valley fills on a passive continental margin / Gail M. Ashley and Robert E. Sheridan. Transgressive valley-fill lithosomes: Delaware and Maine / Daniel F. Belknap, John C. Kraft and Richard K. Dunn. Preservation of transgressive and highstand late Pleistocene valley-fill/estuary deposits, Willapa Bay, Washington / H. Edward Clifton -- Segment 3 -- Terrestrial systems. Sequences and sequence boundaries in glacial sluiceways beyond glacial margins / Gordon S. Fraser. High-frequency sequences and the nature of incised-valley fills in fluvial systems of the Breathitt Group (Pennsylvanian), Appalachian foreland basin, eastern Kentucky / John F. Aitken and Stephen S. Flint. Neoproterozoic incised valleys of the eastern great basin, Utah and Idaho: fluvial response ot changes in depositional base level / Marjorie Levy and Nicholas Christie-Blick.
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- Incised-Valley Systems:; origin and sedimentary sequences
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- Dalrymple, Robert W. (editor); Boyd, Ron (geologist and editor); Zaitlin, Brian A. (editor)
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- Hardcover
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- Used - Extremely gentle wear to spine foot and foot edges, extremely mild rubbing to corners, extremely light soiling to boards, bright
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- First edition (presumed; no earlier dates stated)
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- 1565760158
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- 9781565760158
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- SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology)
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- 1994
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