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Author:   James L. Best (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) ,  Paul B. Wignall
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Wiley-Blackwell
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.544kg
ISBN:  

9781119257127

ISBN 10:   1119257123
Pages:   400
Publication Date:   03 June 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contributors vii Acknowledgements ix About the Companion Website xi 1 Introduction to the Field Guide 1 Jim Best & Paul B. Wignall 2 The Shannon Basin: Structural Setting and Evolution 16 John Graham 3 Basin Models 35 Paul B. Wignall & Jim Best 4 Lower Carboniferous of the Shannon Basin Region 48 Ian D. Somerville 5 Viséan Coral Biostromes and Karsts of the Burren 79 Ian D. Somerville 6 The Clare Shales 97 Paul B. Wignall, Ian D. Somerville & Karen Braithwaite 7 Architecture of a Distributive Submarine Fan: The Ross Sandstone Formation 112 David R. Pyles & Lorna J. Strachan 8 Evolving Depocentre and Slope: The Gull Island Formation 174 Lorna J. Strachan & David R. Pyles 9 The Tullig and Kilkee Cyclothems in Southern County Clare 240 Jim Best, Paul B. Wignall, Eleanor J. Stirling, Eric Obrock & Alex Bryk 10 The Tullig and Kilkee Cyclothems of Northern County Clare 329 Paul B. Wignall, Jim Best, Jeff Peakall & Jessica Ross 11 The Younger Namurian Cyclothems around Spanish Point 350 Paul B. Wignall & Jim Best Appendix: List of GigaPan Images 361 References 362 Index 371

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Jim Best holds the Jack and Richard Threet Chair in Sedimentary Geology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, and has research interests in process sedimentology and the dynamics of alluvial, lacustrine, deltaic and deep-sea environments. His work concerns experimental research and field studies in both modern and ancient environments, including fieldwork in Argentina, Bangladesh, Canada, Cambodia, Chile, New Zealand and the UK. Paul Wignall is Professor of palaeoenvironments at the University of Leeds, UK, and his principal research interests lie in the origin and characteristics of mass extinction events in the geological record. He has also pioneered research in mudrocks and palaeoenvironmental change in ancient oceans, and has conducted field work across the globe, including Canada, China, Greenland, Svalbard, Poland, Tibet, USA and the UK. Jim Best and Paul Wignall have also led student, academic and industrial field trips to, as well as conducted research in, the Shannon Basin of Western Ireland for over 25 years.

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