Mass Transport, Gravity Flows, and Bottom Currents: Downslope and Alongslope Processes and Deposits 1st Edition

Mass Transport, Gravity Flows, and Bottom Currents: Downslope and Alongslope Processes and Deposits 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780128225769,0128225769,9780128225745, 0128225742

Product details:

• ISBN 10: 0128225742
• ISBN 13:9780128225745
• Author: G. Shanmugam
  

Mass Transport, Gravity Flows, and Bottom Currents: Downslope and Alongslope Processes and Deposits focuses solely on important downslope and alongslope processes. The book provides clear definitions and characteristics based on soil mechanics, fluid mechanics and sediment concentration by volume. It addresses Slides, Slumps, and Debris Flows, Grain Flows, Liquefied/Fluidized Flows, and Turbidity Currents, Density plumes, Hyperpycnal Flows, the Triggering Mechanisms of Downslope Processes, Bottom Currents, and Soft-Sediment Deformation Structures. The mechanics of each process are described in detail and used to provide empirically-driven categories to help recognize these deposits it the rock record.

 

Table contents:

1. Introduction

2. Mass transport: Slides, Slumps, and Debris Flows

3. Gravity Flows: Debris Flows, Grain Flows, Liquefied/Fluidized Flows, and Turbidity Currents, hyperpycnal flows, and contour currents

4. A Paradigm Shift

5. Density plumes: types, deflections, and external controls

6. Hyperpycnal flows

7. Triggering mechanisms of downslope processes

8. Bottom currents

9. Soft-sediment deformation structures

10. Epilogue: lessons learned

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