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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456696103321

Titolo

Gulf of Mexico origin, waters, and biota . Volume 3 Geology [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Noreen A. Buster Charles W. Holmes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

College Station, : Texas A&M University Press, c2011

ISBN

1-60344-293-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (472 p.)

Collana

Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies series

Altri autori (Persone)

HolmesCharles W

Disciplina

578.77/364

Soggetti

Marine biology - Mexico, Gulf of

Geology - Mexico, Gulf of

Oceanography - Mexico, Gulf of

Electronic books.

Mexico, Gulf of

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Foreword: Fifty-Year Update of Bulletin 89""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Geologic History of the Gulf of Mexico""; ""Tectonic Evolution of the Gulf of Mexico Basin""; ""Geology of the Florida Platform Pre-Mesozoic to Recent""; ""Pre-Holocene Geological Evolution of the Northern Gulf of Mexico Basin""; ""Northern Gulf of Mexico Sea-Level History for the Past 20,000 Years""; ""Eastern Gulf of Mexico""; ""Florida Gulf Coast Estuaries Tampa Bay and Charlotte Harbor""; ""Beaches, Barrier Islands, and Inlets of the Florida Gulf Coast""

""Florida Gulf of Mexico Continental Shelf Great Contrasts and Significant Transitions""""West Florida Continental Slope""; ""A Review of Recent Depositional Processes on the Mississippi Fan, Eastern Gulf of Mexico""; ""Northern Gulf of Mexico""; ""Recent Geologic Framework and Geomorphology of the Mississippi�Alabama Shelf, Northern Gulf of Mexico""; ""Mississippi River Delta Plain, Louisiana Coast, and Inner Shelf Holocene Geologic Framework, Processes, and Resources""

""Development of the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico Continental Shelf and Coastal Zone as a Result of the Late Pleistocene�Holocene Sea-Level Rise""""Surficial Geology of the Northern Gulf of Mexico



Continental Slope Impacts of Fluid and Gas Expulsion""; ""Energy Resources of the Northern Gulf of Mexico Basin""; ""Gas Hydrates in the Gulf of Mexico""; ""Mexico""; ""The Chicxulub Impact Crater and Its Influence on the Regional Hydrogeology in Northwest Yucatan, Mexico""; ""Mexican Littoral of the Gulf of Mexico""; ""Coral Reefs""; ""Coral Reefs of the Florida Keys Late Quaternary Stratigraphy""

""Florida Middle Ground Reef Complex""""Mexican Coral Reefs""; ""Habitat-Forming Deepwater Scleractinian Corals in the Gulf of Mexico""; ""Processes""; ""Planktic Foraminiferal Relative Abundance and Trends in Gulf of Mexico Holocene Sediments Records of Climate Variability""; ""Over 300 Years of Anthropogenic and Naturally Induced Low-Oxygen Bottom-Water Events on the Louisiana Continental Shelf""; ""Appendix 1""; ""Appendix 2""; ""Appendix 3""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""