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Showing papers in "Earth-Science Reviews in 1996"


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TL;DR: In this paper, it was shown that Laurentia and Baltica shared a common drift history for the time interval 750-600 Ma as they rotated clockwise and drifted southward from an equatorial position during the opening of the Proto-Pacific between Laurentia, and the two continents of Baltica and Laurentia witnessed the break-up of one supercontinent, Rodinia and the formation of another, but less long-lived, Pangea.

808 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, a compilation of marine sedimentary phosphorus burial rates for the last 160 Myr suggests that natural variations have occurred that span one order of magnitude, which suggests that uniform interpretations with respect to the emplacement of major phosphorite deposits should be treated with caution.

694 citations


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TL;DR: A general review of the nature and classification of tufas is presented and the available literature is summarised in this paper, where an attempt is made to standardise the terminology currently in use and to distinguish clearly between ambient temperature deposits (tufas), thermal deposits (travertines) and speleothems.

671 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, a synthesis of the useful practical criteria of recognition is proposed, and two extreme debris flow types are thus distinguished: muddy debris flows and granular debris flows, and a critical review of recent advances in debris flow dynamic is then proposed.

448 citations


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TL;DR: The main drawback of this method is that it has to be continuously repeated to be fully effective as mentioned in this paper, which can result in situations where unexpected microbial processes take over, and, in the worst scenario, the overall effect is opposite to the desired.

234 citations



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TL;DR: The Symcompactional Concretionary Growth Model (SCGMM) as mentioned in this paper was proposed to explain how a concretionary body can grow while its host thins down by compaction.

153 citations



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TL;DR: In this paper, the first collection of papers devoted to reservoir geochemistry is presented, where the main aim is to understand the distributions and origin(s) of the petroleums, waters and minerals in the reservoir and to account for their possible spatial and compositional variation.

85 citations



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TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the Tertiary sediments of the Gulf of Kuwait is presented, with a special reference to the Dammam Limestone Formation, which is the main source of usable groundwater in the country.

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TL;DR: Theories regarding the formation of sedimentary cycles in the 3rd, 4th and 5th order bands are reviewed with reference to the Middle and Upper Triassic of the Northern Calcareous Alps (NCA) and Southern Alps as mentioned in this paper.

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TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the estimation of physical fields and the use of such fields in interdisciplinary research and modeling is presented, with a detailed review of an ocean forecast system developed at Harvard University.


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TL;DR: The Uralide orogen is a linear collisional belt formed during the Upper Paleozoic as a result of convergence between the East European Craton and outboard terranes as discussed by the authors.

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TL;DR: In this article, a detailed synthesis of carbonate depositional systems in island arcs and documents primary sedimentary constituents based on facies relationships and faunal communities is presented, and a suite of criteria is identified that may be used to differentiate island-arc carbonates from limestones that accumulated in other platform settings.





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Eric Delhez1
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the general circulation of the North-Western European Continental Shelf by means of a three-dimensional macro-scale mathematical model, and the results corresponding to typical winter and summer conditions were described in detail.

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TL;DR: This article explored the basis of the coupling between the ocean and the atmosphere and its role in helping to determine climate, which has become a topic of popular interest which can be discussed in both the academic and the political arena.