Sedimentary Record of Ancient Coastal Upwelling

Abstract

of Part B.- Surface Sediment Distributions.- Some unique sedimentological and geochemical features of deposits in coastal upwelling regions.- Sedimentation of organic matter in upwelling regimes.- Biogenic sediments on the South West African (Namibian) continental margin.- The modern upwelling record off northwest Africa.- Biogenic sedimentary structures in a modern upwelling region: Northwest African continental margin.- Upwelling records in recent sediments from southern Portugal: A reconnaissance survey.- Environmental controls on sediment texture and composition in low oxygen zones off Peru and Oregon.- Coastal upwelling, its influence on the geotechnical properties and stability characteristics of submarine deposits.- Upwelling along the western Indian continental margin and its geological record: A summary.- High Resolution Holocene Time Scales.- Stable isotope record of upwelling and climate from Santa Barbara Basin, California.- Decadal variation of upwelling in the Central Gulf of California.- Oxygen isotope composition of diatom silica and silico-flagellate assemblage changes in the Gulf of California: A 700-year upwelling study.- Stable isotopes of foraminifers off Peru recording high fertility and changes in upwelling history.- Pleistocene Time Scales.- Spatial and temporal patterns of organic matter accumulation on the Peru continental margin.- Variability of upwelling regimes (northwest Africa, south Arabia) during the latest Pleistocene: A comparison.- Glacial-interglacial cycles in oceanic productivity inferred from organic carbon contents in eastern North Atlantic sediment cores.- Differentiation of high oceanic fertility in marine sediments caused by coastal upwelling and/or river discharge off northwest Africa during the late Quaternary.- Distribution of organic carbon in the Gulf of Alaska Neogene and Holocene sedimentary record.- Pre-Pleistocene Phanerozoic Time Scales.- Organic geochemistry of sediments recovered by DSDP/IPOD Leg 75 from under the Benguela Current.- Potential deep-sea petroleum source beds related to coastal upwelling.- Cretaceous upwelling off northwest Africa: A summary.- Facies patterns of a Cretaceous/Tertiary subtropical upwelling system (Great Syrian desert) and an Aptian/Albian boreal upwelling system (NW Germany).- Indications of upwelling in the Lower Ordovician of Scandinavia.- Upwelling in the Paleozoic era.- Paleozoic black shales in relation to continental margin upwelling.- Participants.