Pelagic Sediments - on Land and Under the Sea (Special Publication 1 of the IAS)

Introduction.
Plate stratigraphy and the fluctuating carbonate line.
Preservation of cephalopod skeletons and carbonate dissolutionon ancient Tethyan sea floors.
Sedimentology of Palaeozoic pelagic limestones: the DevonianGriotte (Southern France) and Cephalopodenkalk (Germany).
Deep-water limestones from the Devonian-Carboniferous of theCarnic Alps, Austria.
Pelagic ooze-chalk-limestone transition ands its implicationsfor marine stratigraphy.
Some aspects of cementation in chalk.
Diagenesis of Upper Cretaceous chalks from England, NorthernIreland and the North Sea.
Maastrichian chalk of north-west W Europe - a pelagic shelfsediment.
Magnesian-calcite nodules in the Ionian deep sea: an actualisticmodel for the formation of some nodular limestones.
Origin of red nodular limestones (Ammonitico Rosso,Knollenkalke) in the Mediterranean Jurassic: a diageneticmodel.
Deposition and diagenesis of silica in marine sediments.
Chertification of oceanic sediments.
Petrography and diagenesis of deep-sea cherts from the centralAtlantic.
Formation of deep-sea chert: role of the sedimentaryenvironment.
Siliceous turbisites: bedded cherts as redeposited oceanridge-derived sediments.
Radiolarian cherts, pelagic limestones and igneous rocks ineugeosynclinal assemblages.
Origin and fate of ferromenganoan active ridge sediments.
Pelagic sediments in the Cretaceous and Tertiary history of theTroodos massif, Cyprus.
Encrusting organisms in deep-sea manganese nodules