Pelagic Sediments

This first IAS Special Publication contains the oral presentations from a special symposium on pelagic sediments held in Zurich in 1973. The aim of the symposium was to bring together sea-borne researchers involved with the Deep Sea Drilling Project and land-locked researchers studying ancient sediments. If you are a member of the International Association of Sedimentologists, for purchasing details, please see: iasnet.org/publications/details.asp?code=SP1

This first IAS Special Publication contains the oral presentationsfrom a special symposium on pelagic sediments held in Zurich in1973. The aim of the symposium was to bring together sea-borneresearchers involved with the Deep Sea Drilling Project andland-locked researchers studying ancient sediments.If you are a member of the International Association ofSedimentologists, for purchasing details, please see:iasnet.org/publications/details.asp?code=SP1

Introduction.Plate stratigraphy and the fluctuating carbonate line.Preservation of cephalopod skeletons and carbonate dissolutionon ancient Tethyan sea floors.Sedimentology of Palaeozoic pelagic limestones: the DevonianGriotte (Southern France) and Cephalopodenkalk (Germany).Deep-water limestones from the Devonian-Carboniferous of theCarnic Alps, Austria.Pelagic ooze-chalk-limestone transition ands its implicationsfor marine stratigraphy.Some aspects of cementation in chalk.Diagenesis of Upper Cretaceous chalks from England, NorthernIreland and the North Sea.Maastrichian chalk of north-west W Europe - a pelagic shelfsediment.Magnesian-calcite nodules in the Ionian deep sea: an actualisticmodel for the formation of some nodular limestones.Origin of red nodular limestones (Ammonitico RossoKnollenkalke) in the Mediterranean Jurassic: a diageneticmodel.Deposition and diagenesis of silica in marine sediments.Chertification of oceanic sediments.Petrography and diagenesis of deep-sea cherts from the centralAtlantic.Formation of deep-sea chert: role of the sedimentaryenvironment.Siliceous turbisites: bedded cherts as redeposited oceanridge-derived sediments.Radiolarian cherts, pelagic limestones and igneous rocks ineugeosynclinal assemblages.Origin and fate of ferromenganoan active ridge sediments.Pelagic sediments in the Cretaceous and Tertiary history of theTroodos massif, Cyprus.Encrusting organisms in deep-sea manganese nodules