Tectonic sedimentology: Sediment systems deciphering global to local tectonics

Sedimentology

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 2-56

  Leeder, Michael R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Sedimentary architecture; Structural growth; Subsidence; Tectonic sedimentology; Tectonic uplift

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEAN; BANDED IRON FORMATIONS; BASIN SCALE; CHANGING CLIMATE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; CONTINENT COLLISIONS; EROSION AND SEDIMENTATION; FACIES ANALYSIS; FLUID INCLUSION; HYDROLOGICAL EVENTS; ISOTOPIC RATIOS; KEY CONTROL; LENGTH SCALE; MID-OCEAN RIDGES; NEOTECTONICS; NUMERICAL MODELLING; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; PALAEOALTIMETRY; PALAEOWATER; PROTEROZOIC; RADIOMETRIC DATING; REGIONAL SCALE; SEALEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENT FLUX; SEDIMENT SUPPLY; SEDIMENTARY ARCHITECTURE; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; STRUCTURAL GROWTH; TECTONIC FRAMEWORK; TECTONIC INFLUENCE; TECTONIC UPLIFT; TRANSPORT ALGORITHMS;

ASTATINE; CATCHMENTS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; EROSION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; IRON DEPOSITS; ISOTOPES; MINERALOGY; OXYGEN; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); POPULATION STATISTICS; RUNOFF; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SETTLING TANKS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; STRATIGRAPHY; SUBSIDENCE;

TECTONICS;

CONTINENTAL COLLISION; MID-OCEAN RIDGE BASALT; NEOTECTONICS; PHANEROZOIC; PROTEROZOIC; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SPELEOTHEM; SUBSIDENCE; TECTONIC STRUCTURE; UPLIFT;

EID: 78751483681     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: 13653091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2010.01207.x     Document Type: Article

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