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Table of Contents - Special Paper 370

Extreme Depositional Environments: Mega End Members in Geologic Time

Edited 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