Gerard V. Middleton
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LOCATION: Hamilton, Canada
Professor of Geology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario. A leading advocate of quantitative methods in studies of sediments.
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Continental rise, a major depositional regime in oceans made up of thick sequences of continental material that accumulate between the continental slope and the abyssal plain. Continental rises form as a result of three sedimentary processes: mass wasting, the deposition from contour currents, and…
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