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Table of Contents - Special Paper 370Extreme Depositional Environments: Mega End Members in Geologic TimeEdited by Marjorie A. Chan and Allen W. Archer |
1. | Introduction: A look at extreme depositional systems Marjorie A. Chan and Allen W. Archer |
2. | Timing of late Paleozoic glaciation in Gondwana: Was glaciation responsible for the development of northern hemisphere cyclothems? John L. Isbell, Molly F. Miller, Keri L. Wolfe, and Paul A. Lenaker |
3. | Subglacial outburst floods and extreme sedimentary events in the Labrador Sea John Shaw and Jerome-Etienne Lesemann |
4. | Limits on extreme eolian systems: Sahara of Mauritania and Jurassic Navajo Sandstone examples Gary Kocurek |
5. | Quaternary loess-paleosol sequences as examples of climate-driven sedimentary extremes Daniel R. Muhs and E. Arthur Bettis III |
6. | Lessons from large lake systems-Thresholds, nonlinearity, and strange attractors Kevin M. Bohacs, Alan R. Carroll, and Jack E. Neal |
7. | Organic carbon burial by large Permian lakes, northwest China Alan R. Carroll and Marwan A. Wartes |
8. | Features and origin of the giant Cucomungo Canyon alluvial fan, Eureka Valley, California Terence C. Blair |
9. | Desmoinesian coal beds of the Eastern Interior and surrounding basins: The largest tropical peat mires in Earth history Stephen F. Greb, William M. Andrews, Cortland F. Eble, William DiMichele, C. Blaine Cecil, and James C. Hower |
10. | Highest tides of the world Allen W. Archer and Mary S. Hubbard |
11. | Giant submarine canyons: Is size any clue to their importance in the rock record? William R. Normark and Paul R. Carlson |
12. | Remnant-ocean submarine fans: Largest sedimentary systems on Earth Raymond V. Ingersoll, William R. Dickinson, and Stephan A. Graham |
13. | Megareefs in Middle Devonian supergreenhouse climates Paul Copper and Christopher R. Scotese |
14. | Origin and evolution of large Precambrian iron formations Bruce M. Simonson |
15. | Extreme paleoceanographic conditions in a Paleozoic oceanic upwelling system: Organic productivity and widespread phosphogenesis in the Permian Phosphoria Sea Eric E. Hiatt and David A. Budd |