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The Web of Geological Sciences: Advances, Impacts, and Interactions
Author(s)
Marion E. Bickford
Marion E. Bickford
Department of Earth Sciences, 204 Heroy Geology Laboratory, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244-1070, USA
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Geological Society of America

Volume
500
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© 2013 Geological Society of America
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ISBN print:
9780813725000
Publication date:
September 01, 2013
Book Chapter
Major advances in siliciclastic sedimentary geology, 1960–2012
Author(s)
Ronald J. Steel
Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712-1692, USA
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Ronald J. Steel
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Kitty L. Milliken
Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712-1692, USA
Kitty L. Milliken
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Published:September 01, 2013
There was a new focus on “processes” within sedimentary geology from the 1960s. It was initially driven by alluvial-channel and flow-regime experiments, but led to the concept of facies succession for all depositional environments and eventually, on the larger scale, to a new stratigraphy in which base-level change was the key ingredient. Systematic study of modern environments led to a marked improvement in our knowledge of alluvial to deepwater sedimentary systems and how they are linked. New access to seismic data, especially on shelf margins and deep marine environments, was critical for further great changes in our understanding of marine...
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Index Terms/Descriptors
- alluvial fans
- alluvium
- authigenesis
- barrier islands
- basins
- carbonate rocks
- clastic rocks
- clastic sediments
- clastic wedges
- climate
- coastal environment
- deep-water environment
- deltas
- depositional environment
- diagenesis
- estuaries
- experimental studies
- facies
- fluvial environment
- geomorphology
- glacial environment
- heterogeneity
- lacustrine environment
- limestone
- marine environment
- modern analogs
- mudstone
- paleosols
- provenance
- reservoir rocks
- sandstone
- sea-level changes
- sedimentary basins
- sedimentary rocks
- sedimentary structures
- sedimentology
- sediments
- sequence stratigraphy
- shallow-water environment
- shelf environment
- siliciclastics
- succession
- tectonics
- turbidite
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