Geological Magazine; July 2006; v. 143; no. 4;
p. 552-553; DOI: 10.1017/S0016756806242481
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HODGSON, D. M. & FLINT, S. S. (eds) 2005. Submarine Slope Systems. Processes and Products.
Geological Society Special Publication no. 244. v + 225 pp. London, Bath: Geological Society of London. Price £65.00 (hard covers). ISBN 1 86239 175 0.
Gary Nichols
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This collection of papers is one of the more slimline volumes in the Geological Society Special Publications series. It contains a dozen contributions, plus a short introduction by the editors, and stretches to just over 200 pages. However, if judged in terms of quality and diversity of content, rather than by weight of the bound volume, it scores quite highly.
Older literature on depositional environments has tended to by-pass the zone between the shelf and the ocean floor, in much the same way that a lot of sediment was assumed to by-pass the continental slope, but this volume . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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