Sedimentation, Tectonics and Eustasy: Sea-Level Changes at Active Margins

Copyright © 1991 Blackwell Scientific

Sedimentation, Tectonics and Eustasy: Sea-Level Changes at Active Margins

Editor(s): David I. M. Macdonald

Published Online: 14 APR 2009

Print ISBN: 9780632030170

Online ISBN: 9781444303896

DOI: 10.1002/9781444303896

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Table of contents

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      Front Matter (pages i–x)

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      Colour Plates (pages c1–c3)

  3. Models and Tests of Sea-Level Change

    1. Sequence Stratigraphy, Sea-Level Change, and Significance for the Deep Sea (pages 1–39)

      Bilal U. Haq

    2. Application of Global Sea-Level and Sequence-Stratigraphic Models in Southern Hemisphere Neogene Strata from New Zealand (pages 41–65)

      R. M. Carter, S. T. Abbott, C. S. Fulthorpe, D. W. Haywick and R. A. Henderson

  4. Rates, Magnitudes and Processes of Sea-Level Change

    1. High-Level Marine Terraces in Western and Southern New Zealand: Indicators of the Tectonic Tempo of an Active Continental Margin (pages 67–78)

      D. G. Bishop

    2. Rates and Magnitudes of Late Cenozoic Vertical Movements in the Indonesian Banda Arc and the Distinction of Eustatic Effects (pages 79–89)

      A. R. Fortuin and M. E. M. de Smet

    3. Depositional Architecture of Quaternary Fan-Delta Deposits of the Andean Fore-Arc: Relative Sea-Level Changes as a Response to Aseismic Ridge Subduction (pages 91–103)

      S. Flint, P. Turner and E. J. Jolley

    4. Volcano-Tectonic Control of Offshore to Tidal-Flat Regressive Cycles from the Dunquin Group (Silurian) of Southwest Ireland (pages 105–119)

      R. J. Sloan and B. P. J. Williams

  5. Neogene–Recent Margins

    1. Sea-Level Changes and Sedimentary Evolution during the Quaternary in the Northwest Aegean Continental Margin, Greece (pages 121–131)

      Vasilios Lykousis

    2. Sequence Stratigraphy on the Shelf and Upper Slope in Response to the Latest Pleistocene—Holocene Sea-Level Changes off Sendai, Northeast Japan (pages 133–150)

      Yoshiki Saito

    3. Interplay between Arc Tectonics and Sea-Level Changes as Revealed by Sedimentation Patterns in the Aleutians (pages 151–163)

      Maxwell R. Dobson, David W. Scholl and Andrew J. Stevenson

    4. Neogene Interaction of Tectonic and Glacial Processes at the Pacific Margin of the Antarctic Peninsula (pages 165–186)

      R. D. Larter and P. F. Barker

  6. Ancient Arc and Transform Margins

    1. Relative Importance of Regional Tectonics and Eustasy for the Mesozoic of the Andes (pages 187–200)

      A. Hallam

    2. Cyclic Sedimentation in Three Neogene Basins in California (pages 201–215)

      J. Robert Dodd and Robert J. Stanton

    3. Anatomy of an Evolving Island Arc: Tectonic and Eustatic Control in the South Central American Fore-Arc Area (pages 217–240)

      Hartmut Seyfried, Allan Astorga, Hubert Amann, Claudio Calvo, Wolfgang Kolb, Hannelore Schmidt and Jutta Winsemann

    4. Depositional Sequences and Sequence Boundaries in Fore-Arc Coastal Embayments: Case Histories from Central America (pages 241–258)

      Hannelore Schmidt and Hartmut Seyfried

    5. Depositional Sequences Associated with Equilibrium Coastlines in the Neogene of South-Western Nicaragua (pages 259–272)

      Wolfgang Kolb and Hannelore Schmidt

    6. Response of Deep-Water Fore-Arc Systems to Sea-Level Changes, Tectonic Activity and Volcaniclastic Input in Central America (pages 273–292)

      Jutta Winsemann and Hartmut Seyfried

    7. The Role of Tectonics and Eustasy in the Evolution of a Marginal Basin: Cretaceous—;Larsen Basin, Antarctica (pages 293–305)

      D. Pirrie, A. G. Whitham and J. R. Ineson

    8. The Role of Eustasy in the Development of a Regional Shallowing Event in a Tectonically Active Basin: Fossil Bluff Group (Jurassic—Cretaceous), Alexander Island, Antarctica (pages 307–329)

      P. J. Butterworth

    9. The Role of Local Tectonics Versus Global Sea-Level Change in the Neogene Evolution of the Cyprus Active Margin (pages 331–369)

      A. H. F. Robertson, S. Eaton, E. J. Follows and J. E. McCallum

  7. Foreland, Foredeep and Cratonic Basins

    1. Miocene Depositional Sequences within a Tectonically Controlled Transgressive–Regressive Cycle (pages 371–390)

      Philippe Crumeyrolle, Jean-Loup Rubino and Georges Clauzon

    2. Carbonate—;Depositional Systems in the Paleogene of the South Pyrenean Foreland Basin: A Sequence-Stratigraphic Approach (pages 391–407)

      H. P. Luterbacher, H. Eichenseer, Ch. Betzler and A. M. van den Hurk

    3. High-Frequency Relative Sea-Level Oscillations in Upper Cretaceous Shelf Clastics of the Alberta Foreland Basin: Possible Evidence for a Glacio-Eustatic Control? (pages 409–428)

      A. Guy Plint

    4. Jurassic—Marine Oscillations and Geometry of Back-Arc Basin Fill, Central Argentine Andes (pages 429–450)

      Leonardo Legarreta and Miguel A. Uliana

    5. Sea-Level Change around the Margins of the Catania—Trough and Hyblean Plateau, Southeast Sicily (African-Plate Convergence Zone): A Problem of Plio—Quaternary Plate Buoyancy? (pages 451–464)

      Martyn Pedley and Mario Grasso

    6. The Ordovician Back-Arc to Foreland Successor Basin in the Argentinian—Chilean Puna: Tectono-Sedimentary Trends and Sea-Level Changes (pages 465–484)

      Heinrich Bahlburg

    7. Sedimentation and Tectonics in the Dinantian Limestones of South Wales (pages 485–511)

      A. T. S. Ramsay

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      Index (pages 513–518)

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