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By Paul E. Potter, J. B. Maynard, Pedro J. Depetris

Transparent writing and research of the wide spectrum of procedures that produce shale are coupled with well-captioned a hundred and fifty illustrations, forty tables, boxed technical info, word list and appendices. Recounts the step by step evolution and levels of shal, permitting readers to grasp the fundamentals and to dig but deeper into their starting place, useful implications and courting to earth background. heritage details looks in appendices (Clay Mineralogy, Isotopes, Petrology, etc.); technicial information in high-lighted bins, and definitions of three hundred+ phrases within the thesaurus.

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11). Flocculation results from both physical and biological processes. The physical processes were recognized first and depend on the natural attraction of small platy particles through Van der Waals attractions. The excess negative charge present on the surface of clay particles, however, tends to keep clays too far apart for aggregation to occur unless large concentrations of charged ions are present in the solutions, as in seawater. These ions counteract the natural electrostatic repulsion of the clays, allowing them to contact one another and flocculate.

22A,B. Maximum percent silt and the maximum modal size (phi units) in a modern turbidite bed from the North Atlantic Ocean west of Morocco. Depths in feet (after Jones et al. 1992, Fig. 15). Note elongate geometry and how persistent the thickness is in the transport direction. Published by permission of the authors and Elsevier Scientific Publishing 39 40 3. Transport and Deposition Although much has been written about the hydraulics of turbidity currents, a simple twodimensional governing equation provides initial insight to this process τ τ = ∆ρ g t α o+ i Retarding Driving where τo is the shear stress at the water-bottom interface, τi is the shear stress at the upper interface of the current, ∆ρ is the density difference between the turbidity current and the overlying water mass, g is the acceleration due to gravity, t is the thickness of the current and α is the slope angle of the bottom.

16). Published by permission of the author and the Geological Society of America Fig. 6. Trilobite, Flexicalymene retrosa, “buried alive” in mud by an Ordovician storm, Cincinnati Arch, USA many slope aprons (Fig. 5) and in some canyons. On muddy shelves subject to storms, local mud flows with sharp bases can be recognized even on gentle slopes by their transported fossils and an irregular fissility rather than lamination. Such mudflows often bury fauna resting on the bottom (Fig. 6). 4. Stability of Underwater Slopes The stability of a muddy subaqueous bottom depends on many factors.

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