Contourites are sediments deposited or substantially reworked by bottom currents. The study of contourites is nowadays crucial for several fields of fundamental and applied research:
1. palaeoclimatology and palaeoceanography, since these fairly continuous and relatively high-resolution sediments hold the key for priceless information on the variability in ocean circulation patterns, current velocities, oceanographic history and basin interconnectivity;

This book is a collection of papers on an aspect of plate tectonics of which our understanding is at present limited. In the mid-1970s, prior to the recent phase of IPOD active margin drilling, few geologists would have anticipated that at the start of the 1980s so many new questions concerning the nature of tectonic and sedimentary processes in forearc regions would have come to light.

Современные представления геодинамики, морской геологии и биогеохимии при­меняются для оценки палеогеографических условий накопления баженовской битуминозной формации и диагенеза осадков. Предлагаемая на этой основе геомеханическая модель образования номальных разрезов (АРБ) иллюстрируется примерами её nрактического применения. Показана унаследованность флюидопровоящей системы баженовской нефтематеринской толщи от поркмарков на дне палеобассейна о современных инверсионных кольцевых сейсмических аномалий.
Для специалистов в области геологии. Может быть полезно для студентов, аспирантов и слушателей курсов повышения квалификации по стратиграфии, палеогеографии, литологии и нефтегазоносности Западной Сибири.

It is our impression that, over the last couple of decades, fluvial geomorphology and fluvial sedimentary geology have been developing in parallel, rather than in conjunction as might be expected. Though we tell our students that these are interdependent disciplines, perusal of the literature uggests there has been a failure of each domain to inform and recognize the needs of the other. Many facts have been collected, from both modem and ancient examples, yet our widerstanding of the sedimentary record of 1ivers eems not to have advanced significantly. It is still a struggle to map the architecture ob erved in the preserved rock record to the genetic components recorded from active modern rivers. Determination of the lateral extent and va1iation of lithofacies remains exceedingly problematic, especially in the subsurface.

Основные разрабатываемые нефтегазоносные комплексы (НГК) Западной Сибири  сосредоточены в верхнеюрских и меловых отложениях. Согласно результатам исследований А.Э. Конторовича и его коллег (2013, 2014), а также трудам других томских и новосибирских геологов и геофизиков, процессы трансгрессии-регрессии на юго-востоке Западной Сибири активно менялись в юрско-меловое время. Эти процессы влияли на формирование песчаных тел в осадочных пластах, как показывает литолого-фациальный анализ.

In the past few decades, the petroleum industry has seen great exploration successes in petroliferous sedimentary basins worldwide; however, the net volume of hydrocarbons discovered each year has been declining since the late 1970s, and the number of new field discoveries per year has dropped since the early 1990s. We are finding hydrocarbons in more difficult places and in more subtle traps. Although geophysical and engineering technologies are crucial to much of the exploration success, fundamentally, the success is dependent on innovative play concepts associated with spatial and temporal relationships among deformation, deposition, and hydrocarbon accumulation. <...>

Glaciated alpine areas form a fascinating basis for studying environmental processes. Glaciers can be found at virtually any latitude on the globe where the mountains are high enough and the moisture supply large enough to promote permanent ice cover. Figure 1.1 provides a schematic representation of the way in which the variables of altitude, latitude and climate interact to provide regional thresholds above which glaciers may occur. Thus, in mountainous areas in maritime climatic zones and in higher latitudes, glacier snouts will frequently extend to sea level, whereas in the arid continental areas of the tropics, permanent ice and snow cover can occur only at very high altitudes. The presence or absence of glaciers in a drainage basin above the regional threshold will, of course, depend on other local factors, notably the size, orientation and slope of the basin and the way that these interact with larger scale patterns of precipitation and insolation, to control moisture inputs to the basin and losses through ablation, evaporation and runoff and thus the rate of movement and the mass balance of areas of ice or snow within the basin. The significance of these local characteristics will also vary with macro-climate as it is affected by latitude and altitude and will affect the dynamism of the glacial system. <...>

A very large part of our understanding of carbonate sediments and rocks is derived from studies made with the microscope. Field work lays bare the gross relationships, but is apt to be hampered by the failure of many limestones to reveal themselves clearly in the hand specimen-a serious handicap in so complex a group of rocks. Geochemical and X-ray studies, though profoundly influential, suffer not only from the length of time between question and answer, but, above all, from their inability to take cognizance of the complex fabrics which are of such critical importance in this group of multicomponent rocks. The immediacy of the microscopical approach has sustained this method as the major research tool throughout the rapid expansion of carbonate studies since World War 11: the newer and more discerning classifications depend on it. The development of refined staining techniques, of replication, including the shadowing of acetate peels, combined with the use of the transmission and scanningelectron microscopes, have shown, along with the subtle methods of cathodoluminescence, that the microscope has a rich future <...>

Nearly everyone, at some time in his or her life, will have stood on a  sea beach and watched how the waves repeatedly disturb and then deposit the sand grains, whilst the wind, blowing freely over the drier parts of the beach, gathers up some of the sand and sweeps it inland to form tall dunes.

This particular case, one from common experience, serves very well to introduce the general topic of this book, namely, the dynamic interactions, in natural surroundings, between detrital particles and moving fluids. These interactions, in which physical processes are of paramount importance, give us the depositional landscapes and seascapes with which we are familiar today and, at various removes in time, many of the sedimentary strata found in the earth's crust <...>

В монографии излагаются физико-химические условия седиментации (химический состав, температура, давление и некоторые другие параметры минералообразувших растворов) солей в древнем солеродном бассейне и их перекристаллизации на стадиях диагенеза а катагенеэа. Информация получена в результате исследования первичных включений минералообразующих растворов и распределения брома в минералах галогенных пород. Освещаются такие результаты экспериментальных исследований до гомогенизации включений в искусственных кристаллах, галита, которые проводились с целью оценки достоверности интерпретации данных гомогенизации включений в природных кристаллах галита.
Рассчитана на геологов, занимающихся геохимией, минералогией, петрографией и литологией соляных и соленосных отложений