Subject Index
Italized numbers refer to figures, T to tables
accretionary wedge (also s. deepsea trenches)
chaotic layers and melange 588
decollement zones 584-587,
12.19b-f, 12.20,12.21
internal structures 587
mud diapirs, volcanoes 588
sediment budget 584, 12.21
sediment successions 12. 1geeg,
12.24e
specific sedimentary structures
587
tectonic deformation etc. 588,
592, 12.22e
accommodation potential s. sequence
stratigraphy
accumulation rates (also s. sedimentation rates) 455-456
conversion into sedimentation
rates 10.1
actualistic, nonact. systems 283
adjacent sea basins s. also water
circulation, Black Sea, Gulf
of Califomia, Red Sea etc.)
166-181
"arid" basins 168, 4.2b
"humid" basin 167, 4.2a
stratification 167
advection s. compaction flow
advective heat transfer 697
Aegean Sea 628, 12.40e
Afar, rift zone 551
aggregation of clay and mud (also
s. clay pellets) 190
albedo 239
Aleutian trench 587
allodapic limestones s. carbonate
turbidites
allogenetic, allocyclic sequences
294-295, 348-350
allomemeber, allostratigraphy
7.3d, T7.2
alluvial fans 35-37,2.7, 2.11a
current directions 37
vertical sequences 37, 2.12
stream gradients 36
Alps, uplift 451
denudation 439
lateral extrusion 12.40be
Altiplano, Bolivia 601
amalgamation 103,218
Amazon
dissolved river load 430,
9.9a-e
shelf 127
deep-sea fan 231,327, 5.22
anastomosed rivers 46, 2.18
anchimetamorph zone 697
Andaman Sea 604,12.23
Andes (s. also S. America)
sub-Andean retro-foreland
basins 600-60 I
intramontane basins 622,
12,3gee
Anoxie events 246
antidunes 32, 2.9
anti-estuarine water circulation
168,4.2b
Apennines, foredeeps, flysch
basins 223,610, 12.33
Appalachians, uplift 450
ArabianlPersian Gulf(also s.
Persian Gult) 169, 180, 4.7
hydrocarbon province 716,
14.12
"aragonite" ocean 355
Aral Sea 494, 11. 7b
arc-trench systems s. deep-sea
trenches
Argentina, Permian eolian dunces
58
astronomical time scale 359-361,
7.37
Atlantic (also s. North Atlantic)
clay minerals 424
conjugate margins 12. ged
decreasing clastic sed. rate
506-508,11.15
margin, North America, subsidence 407, 8.14, 8.16, 8.17 ab
northwestem, sediment accumulation 531, 11.32cd
river-supplied calcium and
silica 507
shelf, incised valleys 338
shelf, N. America 127
water circulation 187, 5.1 e
atrnosphere, evolution 284, 6.18
atrnospheric CO 2 244, 5.24, 5.25
atmospheric-oceanic feedback
system 289
aulaeogen 5, 1. 1 c
Australia
Cretaeeous seaway 127
denudation 446
dune fields 54, 58
Perrnian coal 723
rivers 47
carbonates, southern shelf
136
.
subsidence, shelf 409, 8.17e
authigenic minerals 205
autogenetic, autocyclic sequences
294-295, 348-350
autotrophie organisms 467
Bab el Mandeb, Red Sea 177, 180
backarc basins (s. also retroarc
basins) 6,599-604, 1.2a,
12.18
basin evolution 602, 12.29
examples 602-604
lifetime 599
marginal basins (W. Pacific)
12.28
modem examples 602-604, 12.30
preservation and identification
605
sediment successions 600-602
plate-tectonic setting 599,
12.18,12.29
backstripping s. subsidence history
badlands, denudation 440
Bahama archipelago 563, 12.12
Bahama bank, platform 145
BaikaIlake, rift 79,405
Baja Calicornia margin 567
Baltic Sea 167,4.2a
Baltimore Canyon trough, thermal
history 697, J3.29b
banded chert, quartzite s. Precambrian sediments
banded ironstones 288-289, 6.18
Barbados accretionary wedge 587,
472, 12.22e
Barents shelf 28, 136
barrier-island complexes 119-123,
3.l0b-d,3.18
ebb- and flood tidal sands
121,3.18
preservation in geologie
record 123
response to sea level change
123,3.17,3.18
sedimentary structures 121,
3.18
subenvironments 121, 3.18
transgressive, regressive
systems 123,3.17,3.18
Italized numbers refer to figures, T to tables
accretionary wedge (also s. deepsea trenches)
chaotic layers and melange 588
decollement zones 584-587,
12.19b-f, 12.20,12.21
internal structures 587
mud diapirs, volcanoes 588
sediment budget 584, 12.21
sediment successions 12. 1geeg,
12.24e
specific sedimentary structures
587
tectonic deformation etc. 588,
592, 12.22e
accommodation potential s. sequence
stratigraphy
accumulation rates (also s. sedimentation rates) 455-456
conversion into sedimentation
rates 10.1
actualistic, nonact. systems 283
adjacent sea basins s. also water
circulation, Black Sea, Gulf
of Califomia, Red Sea etc.)
166-181
"arid" basins 168, 4.2b
"humid" basin 167, 4.2a
stratification 167
advection s. compaction flow
advective heat transfer 697
Aegean Sea 628, 12.40e
Afar, rift zone 551
aggregation of clay and mud (also
s. clay pellets) 190
albedo 239
Aleutian trench 587
allodapic limestones s. carbonate
turbidites
allogenetic, allocyclic sequences
294-295, 348-350
allomemeber, allostratigraphy
7.3d, T7.2
alluvial fans 35-37,2.7, 2.11a
current directions 37
vertical sequences 37, 2.12
stream gradients 36
Alps, uplift 451
denudation 439
lateral extrusion 12.40be
Altiplano, Bolivia 601
amalgamation 103,218
Amazon
dissolved river load 430,
9.9a-e
shelf 127
deep-sea fan 231,327, 5.22
anastomosed rivers 46, 2.18
anchimetamorph zone 697
Andaman Sea 604,12.23
Andes (s. also S. America)
sub-Andean retro-foreland
basins 600-60 I
intramontane basins 622,
12,3gee
Anoxie events 246
antidunes 32, 2.9
anti-estuarine water circulation
168,4.2b
Apennines, foredeeps, flysch
basins 223,610, 12.33
Appalachians, uplift 450
ArabianlPersian Gulf(also s.
Persian Gult) 169, 180, 4.7
hydrocarbon province 716,
14.12
"aragonite" ocean 355
Aral Sea 494, 11. 7b
arc-trench systems s. deep-sea
trenches
Argentina, Permian eolian dunces
58
astronomical time scale 359-361,
7.37
Atlantic (also s. North Atlantic)
clay minerals 424
conjugate margins 12. ged
decreasing clastic sed. rate
506-508,11.15
margin, North America, subsidence 407, 8.14, 8.16, 8.17 ab
northwestem, sediment accumulation 531, 11.32cd
river-supplied calcium and
silica 507
shelf, incised valleys 338
shelf, N. America 127
water circulation 187, 5.1 e
atrnosphere, evolution 284, 6.18
atrnospheric CO 2 244, 5.24, 5.25
atmospheric-oceanic feedback
system 289
aulaeogen 5, 1. 1 c
Australia
Cretaeeous seaway 127
denudation 446
dune fields 54, 58
Perrnian coal 723
rivers 47
carbonates, southern shelf
136
.
subsidence, shelf 409, 8.17e
authigenic minerals 205
autogenetic, autocyclic sequences
294-295, 348-350
autotrophie organisms 467
Bab el Mandeb, Red Sea 177, 180
backarc basins (s. also retroarc
basins) 6,599-604, 1.2a,
12.18
basin evolution 602, 12.29
examples 602-604
lifetime 599
marginal basins (W. Pacific)
12.28
modem examples 602-604, 12.30
preservation and identification
605
sediment successions 600-602
plate-tectonic setting 599,
12.18,12.29
backstripping s. subsidence history
badlands, denudation 440
Bahama archipelago 563, 12.12
Bahama bank, platform 145
BaikaIlake, rift 79,405
Baja Calicornia margin 567
Baltic Sea 167,4.2a
Baltimore Canyon trough, thermal
history 697, J3.29b
banded chert, quartzite s. Precambrian sediments
banded ironstones 288-289, 6.18
Barbados accretionary wedge 587,
472, 12.22e
Barents shelf 28, 136
barrier-island complexes 119-123,
3.l0b-d,3.18
ebb- and flood tidal sands
121,3.18
preservation in geologie
record 123
response to sea level change
123,3.17,3.18
sedimentary structures 121,
3.18
subenvironments 121, 3.18
transgressive, regressive
systems 123,3.17,3.18