Deep-marine systems : processes, deposits, environments, tectonics and sedimentation / Kevin T. Pickering and Richard N. Hiscott ; with contribution from Thomas Heard.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1: Process and product --
Part 2: Systems --
Part 3: Plate tectonics and sedimentation.

This book aims to inform advanced-level undergraduate and postgraduate students, and professional Earth scientists with interests in physical oceanography and hydrocarbon exploration and production, about many of the important physical aspects of deep-water (mainly deep-marine) systems. The authors consider transport and deposition in the deep sea, trace-fossil assemblages, and facies stacking patterns as an archive of the underlying controls on deposit architecture (e.g., seismicity, climate change, autocyclicity). Topics include modern and ancient deep-water sedimentary environments, tectonic settings, and how basinal and extra-basinal processes generate the typical characteristics of basin slopes, submarine canyons, contourite mounds and drifts, submarine fans, basin floors and abyssal plains.