Modern and ancient continental shelf anoxia

Cover: Modern and Ancient Continental Shelf Anoxia
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Front matter......Page 2
Contents......Page 6
Modern and ancient continental shelf anoxia: an overview......Page 9
Effects of hypoxia on continental shelf benthos: comparisons between
the New York Bight and the Northern Gulf of Mexico......Page 33
A brief summary of hypoxia on the northern Gulf of Mexico
continental shelf: 1985-1988......Page 41
Recovery responses of two benthic assemblages following an acute
hypoxic event on the Texas continental shelf, northwestern Gulf of
Mexico......Page 54
Biofacial patterns in river-induced shelf anoxia......Page 70
River flow, phytoplankton production and oxygen depletion in
Chesapeake Bay......Page 88
Hypoxic conditions in the northern Adriatic Sea:
historical development and ecological significance......Page 99
The role of sedimentary biogeochemistry in the formation of hypoxia
in shallow coastal waters (Gulf of Trieste, northern Adriatic)......Page 110
Anoxia in the Northern Adriatic Sea: rapid death, slow recovery......Page 121
Benthos communities in oxygen deficient shelf and upper slope areas
of the Peruvian and Chilean Pacific coast, and changes caused by El
Nifio......Page 132
Sedimentary and geochemical expressions of oxic and anoxic
conditions on the Peru Shelf......Page 156
Organic carbon flux and development of oxygen deficiency on the
modern Benguela continential shelf south of 22°S: spatial and
temporal variability......Page 172
The dysaerobic zone revisited: a magnetic facies?......Page 185
Oxygen-related biofacies in marine strata: an overview and update......Page 198
Pelletal black shale fabrics: their origin and significance......Page 217
Submarine erosion on the anoxic sea floor: stratinomic,
palaeoenvironmental, and temporal significance of reworked pyritebone
deposits......Page 229
Thin widespread Pennsylvanian black shales of Midcontinent North
America: a record of a cyclic succession of widespread pycnoclines in
a fluctuating epeiric sea......Page 254
Late Permian anoxia in central East Greenland......Page 269
Biofacies, stratigraphic distribution and depositional models of
British onshore Jurassic black shales......Page 285
Keys to the depositional history of the Posidonia Shale (Toarcian) in
the Hils Syncline, northern Germany......Page 304
Organic matter and palynomorphs in the 'Posidonienschiefer'
(Toarcian, Lower Jurassic) of southern Germany......Page 328
Inorganic geochemistry of the German 'Posidonia Shale':
palaeoenvironmental consequences......Page 345
The Lower Oxford Clay: production and preservation of organic
matter in the Callovian (Jurassic) of central England......Page 355
Distribution, dynamics and palaeoecology of Kimmeridgian (Upper
Jurassic) shelf anoxia in western Europe......Page 372
Palaeoenvironments of the Nordenskjöld Formation: an Antarctic Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous black shale-tuff sequence......Page 387
Glauconitization episodes in marginal settings as echoes of mid-
Cretaceous anoxic events in the Vocontian basin (SE France)......Page 405
Micropalaeontological and geochemical evidence of mid-Cretaceous
dysoxic-anoxic palaeoenvironments in the Sergipe Basin,
northeastern Brazil......Page 416
Fate of organic carbon and reduced sulphur in dysoxic-anoxic
Oligocene facies of the Central Paratethys (Carpathian Mountains
and Hungary)......Page 437
Index......Page 449
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