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The work is arranged in eight sections: following a review of the sedimentology and stratigraphy of rift basins, the magmatism and structural evolution of the Red Sea - Gulf of Aden rift is reviewed. Subsequently, new case studies are presented of the early rifting environment, syn-rift sedimentation, tectonics and diagenesis, evaporites and salt tectonics. Post-rift sediments of the axial trough are then discussed along with studies of reefs, coastal zone and shelf sediments, and the tectonic geomorphology of the rift margin escarpment.
This work results from extensive new research in the rift basin largely carried out under collaborative research projects by European and Middle Eastern geologists. It will be an invaluable reference work for geoscientists in the hydrocarbon, groundwater and mineral extraction industries, as well as for researchers in university departments of earth sciences, mining and physical geography.
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Table of contents (32 chapters)
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Syn-rift sedimentation and tectonics
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Evaporites and salt tectonics
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Post-rift axial sediments and geochemistry
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Post-rift coastal sediments, reefs and geomorphology
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Book Title: Sedimentation and Tectonics in Rift Basins Red Sea:- Gulf of Aden
Editors: Bruce H. Purser, Dan W. J. Bosence
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4930-3
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1998
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-412-73490-8Published: 31 December 1997
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-6068-4Published: 05 November 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-4930-3Published: 06 December 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 663
Topics: Geology, Structural Geology, Economic Geology, Sedimentology, Physical Geography