This volume on continental margin sedimentation brings together an expert editorial and contributor team to create a state-of-the-art resource. Taking a global perspective, the book spans a range of timescales and content, ranging from how oceans transport particles, to how thick rock sequences are formed on continental margins. Summarizes and integrates our understanding of sedimentary processes and strata associated with fluvial dispersal systems on continental shelves and slopes Explores timescales ranging from particle transport at one extreme, to deep burial at the other Insights are presented for margins in general, and with focus on a tectonically active margin (northern California) and a passive margin (New Jersey), enabling detailed examination of the intricate relationships between a wide suite of sedimentary processes and their preserved stratigraphy Includes observational studies which document the processes and strata found on particular margins, in addition to numerical models and laboratory experimentation, which provide a quantitative basis for extrapolation in time and space of insights about continental-margin sedimentation Provides a research resource for scientists studying modern and ancient margins, and an educational text for advanced students in sedimentology and stratigraphy

This volume on continental margin sedimentation brings together anexpert editorial and contributor team to create a state-of-the-artresource. Taking a global perspective, the book spans a range oftimescales and content, ranging from how oceans transportparticles, to how thick rock sequences are formed on continentalmargins.* Summarizes and integrates our understanding of sedimentaryprocesses and strata associated with fluvial dispersal systems oncontinental shelves and slopes* Explores timescales ranging from particle transport at oneextreme, to deep burial at the other* Insights are presented for margins in general, and with focuson a tectonically active margin (northern California) and a passivemargin (New Jersey), enabling detailed examination of the intricaterelationships between a wide suite of sedimentary processes andtheir preserved stratigraphy* Includes observational studies which document the processes andstrata found on particular margins, in addition to numerical modelsand laboratory experimentation, which provide a quantitative basisfor extrapolation in time and space of insights aboutcontinental-margin sedimentation* Provides a research resource for scientists studying modern andancient margins, and an educational text for advanced students insedimentology and stratigraphy