The Geology of Continental Margins

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Geological Significance of Continental Margins....Pages 3-10
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
Atlantic-Type Continental Margins....Pages 13-24
Pacific-Type Continental Margins....Pages 25-41
Front Matter....Pages 43-43
Continental Margins, Freeboard and the Volumes of Continents and Oceans Through Time....Pages 45-58
Standard Oceanic and Continental Structure....Pages 59-66
The Boundary Between Oceanic and Continental Crust in the Western North Atlantic....Pages 67-84
Seismicity at Continental Margins....Pages 85-92
Active Continental Margins and Island Arcs....Pages 93-103
The Segmented Nature of Some Continental Margins....Pages 105-114
Front Matter....Pages 115-115
Continental Shelf Sedimentation....Pages 117-135
Holocene Carbonate Sediments of Continental Shelves....Pages 137-155
Recent Sediments and Environment of Southern Brazil, Uruguay, Buenos Aires, and Rio Negro Continental Shelf....Pages 157-177
Continental Slope Construction and Destruction, West Africa....Pages 179-196
Current-Controlled Topography on the Continental Margin Off the Eastern United States....Pages 197-205
Modern Trench Sediments....Pages 207-211
Deep-Sea Sedimentation....Pages 213-241
Acoustic Stratigraphy in the Deep Oceans....Pages 243-246
Front Matter....Pages 247-247
Trench Slope Model....Pages 249-260
Oregon Continental Margin Structure and Stratigraphy: A Test of the Imbricate Thrust Model....Pages 261-283
Eastern Atlantic Continental Margins: Various Structural and Morphological Types....Pages 285-291
Front Matter....Pages 247-247
Seismic Traverse Across the Gabon Continental Margin....Pages 293-295
Continental Margin in the Northern Part of the Gulf of Guinea....Pages 297-311
Continental Margin of East Africa—A Region of Vertical Movements....Pages 313-320
Front Matter....Pages 321-321
Continental Margins of Galicia-Portugal and Bay of Biscay....Pages 323-342
Structural Development of the British Isles, the Continental Margin, and the Rockall Plateau....Pages 343-359
Margins of the Norwegian-Greenland Sea....Pages 361-374
Insular Margins of Iceland....Pages 375-379
The Continental Margins of Eastern Canada and Baffin Bay....Pages 381-389
Atlantic Continental Margin of North America....Pages 391-407
Geophysics of Atlantic North America....Pages 409-427
Bahamas Salient of North America....Pages 429-446
Geology of the Brazilian Continental Margin....Pages 447-461
Pre-Cretaceous Basins in the Argentine Continental Shelf....Pages 463-470
Front Matter....Pages 471-471
Northwest Pacific Trench Margins....Pages 473-491
Sedimentary Sequences in the North Pacific Trenches....Pages 493-504
Geology of the Lau Basin, a Marginal Sea Behind the Tonga Arc....Pages 505-520
Continental Margins Near New Caledonia....Pages 521-535
Marine Geology of the Southern Lord Howe Rise, Southwest Pacific....Pages 537-547
Margins of the Southwest Pacific....Pages 549-565
Evolution of the Margins of the Scotia Sea....Pages 567-579
Front Matter....Pages 471-471
Continental Margin of Western South America....Pages 581-590
Geology of a Part of the Pacific Margin of Chile....Pages 591-598
Continental Margin of Middle America....Pages 599-602
Front Matter....Pages 603-603
Western Continental Margin of Australia....Pages 605-616
Sedimentary and Tectonic Processes in the Bengal Deep-Sea Fan and Geosyncline....Pages 617-627
Continental Margins of India....Pages 629-639
Atlantic and Indian Ocean Margins of Southern Africa....Pages 641-654
Continental Margin of Antarctica: Pacific-Indian Sectors....Pages 655-658
Front Matter....Pages 659-659
Structure of the Bering Sea Basins....Pages 661-668
The Black Sea....Pages 669-682
Continental Margins of the Gulf of Mexico....Pages 683-693
Geology of the Mediterranean Sea Basins....Pages 695-721
Structure of the Western Mediterranean Basin....Pages 723-731
Major Basins Along the Continental Margin of Northern South America....Pages 733-741
Geologic Background of the Red Sea....Pages 743-751
Arctic Ocean Margins....Pages 753-763
Front Matter....Pages 765-765
The Most Ancient Continental Margins....Pages 767-780
The Ancient Continental Margin of Eastern North America....Pages 781-796
Paleozoic Arctic Margin of North America....Pages 797-810
The Ancient Continental Margin of Alaska....Pages 811-816
Front Matter....Pages 765-765
The Ancient Continental Margin of Japan....Pages 817-829
Early Western Margin of the United States....Pages 831-852
Active Continental Margins: Contrasts Between California and New Zealand....Pages 853-872
Possible Ancient Continental Margins in Iran....Pages 873-887
Evolution of the Continental Margins Bounding a Former Southern Tethys....Pages 889-903
Front Matter....Pages 905-905
Metamorphism and Ancient Continental Margins....Pages 907-919
Ophiolites and Ancient Continental Margins....Pages 921-931
Continental Margins and Ophiolite Obduction: Appalachian Caledonian System....Pages 933-950
Front Matter....Pages 951-951
Petroleum Resources Potential of Continental Margins....Pages 953-964
Mineral Resources Potential of Continental Margins....Pages 965-1000
Front Matter....Pages 1001-1001
Continental Margins in Perspective....Pages 1003-1009