Global Sedimentology of the Ocean

1. Introduction1.1 Historical aspects1.2 Objectives2. Generalities2.1 Structure2.2 Physics2.3 Sedimentology3. Major types of basins in oceans history3.1 Rift systems3.2 Intraplate basins3.3 Crustal fissures3.4 Oceans in a context of divergence3.5 Aulacogen basins3.6 Oceans in a context of convegence3.7 Basins in a context of collision3.8 Paleogeography of major oceanic systems4 Formation of oceanic sediments4.1 Terrigenous sediments4.2 Biogenic sediments4.3 Organic sediments4.4 Sediments of volcanic origin4.5 Authigenic sediments5. Diagenesis of oceanic sediments5.1 Dynamics of diagenesis5.2 Effects of diagenesis5.3 Diagenetic alteration of terrigenous sediments5.4 Diagenetic alteration of biogenic calcareous sediments5.5 Diagenetic alteration of biogenic siliceous sediments5.6 Diagenetic alteration of organic sediments6. Past oceanic environments6.1 Anoxic Cretaceous ocean6.2 Strangelove Ocean at the Cretaceous/Tertiary Booundary6.3 Early Paleogene Southern Ocean6.4 Warm oceans at the Paleocene/Eocene Boundary and in the Early Eocene6.5 Eocene/Oligocene transition South of Tasmania6.6 Early and middle Miocene oceans: the Monterey Hypothesis6.7 Messinian salinity crisis in the mediterranean6.8 Mediterranean sapropels