دانلود کتاب Geology of the United States' Seafloor - The View from GLORIA

Geology of the United States' seafloor presents new, definitive studies of the seafloor adjacent to various regions of the United States. The West Coast, East Coast, Alaskan margin, Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean, all show complementary seismic profiling, and magnetic surveys from the GLORIA long-range sidescan sonar images. This spectacular dataset provides a new insight into the structural evolution of the seafloor and the sedimentary processes that have modified it. Such a comprehensive interpretation of the images, in the context of the geology and geological processes of the seafloor, is presented here for the first time. New concepts have emerged and scientists have garnered much new knowledge as a result of this surveying. Geology of the United States' seafloor will be useful to the broad range of advanced students and scientists studying the continental margins and seafloors of the world. Content: Front Matter • Table of Contents • Introduction •Part I. The GLORIA System and Data Processing 1. The USGS GLORIA System 2. Processing and Manipulating GLORIA Sidescan Sonar Images •Part II. U.S. East Coast EEZ 3. The Timing and Spatial Relations of Submarine Canyon Erosion and Mass Movement on the New England Continental Slope and Rise 4. Characteristics of the Continental Slope and Rise Off North Carolina from GLORIA and Seismic-Reflection Data: The Interaction of Downslope and Contour Current Processes •Part III. Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean EEZ 5. Breaching the Levee of a Channel on the Mississippi Fan 6. Morphology of Carbonate Escarpments as an Indicator of Erosional Processes 7. Sedimentary Processes in the Salt Deformation Province of the Texas-Louisiana Continental Slope 8. Sedimentary Processes in a Tectonically Active Region: Puerto Rico North Insular Slope 9. A Review of the Tectonic Problems of the Strike-Slip Northern Boundary of the Caribbean Plate and Examination by GLORIA •Part IV. U.S. West Coast EEZ 10. Discrimination of Fluid Seeps on the Convergent Oregon Continental Margin with GLORIA Imagery 11. A Meandering Channel at the Base of the Gorda Escarpment 12. The Morphology, Processes, and Evolution of Monterey Fan: A Revisit 13. Ground-Truth Studies of West Coast and Gulf of Mexico Submarine Fans 14. Morphology of Small Submarine Fans, Inner California Continental Borderland •Part V. Alaskan EEZ 15. Sediment Pathways in Gulf of Alaska from Beach to Abyssal Plain 16. Sedimentation along the Fore-Arc Region of the Aleutian Island Arc, Alaska 17. Aleutian Basin of the Bering Sea: Styles of Sedimentation and Canyon Development 18. Geology of the Kula Paleo-Plate, North Pacific Ocean Index