This volume on continental margin sedimentation brings together anexpert editorial and contributor team to create a state-of-the-artresource. Taking a global perspective, the book spans a range oftimescales and content, ranging from how oceans transportparticles, to how thick rock sequences are formed on continentalmargins.* Summarizes and integrates our understanding of sedimentaryprocesses and strata associated with fluvial dispersal systems oncontinental shelves and slopes* Explores timescales ranging from particle transport at oneextreme, to deep burial at the other* Insights are presented for margins in general, and with focuson a tectonically active margin (northern California) and a passivemargin (New Jersey), enabling detailed examination of the intricaterelationships between a wide suite of sedimentary processes andtheir preserved stratigraphy* Includes observational studies which document the processes andstrata found on particular margins, in addition to numerical modelsand laboratory experimentation, which provide a quantitative basisfor extrapolation in time and space of insights aboutcontinental-margin sedimentation* Provides a research resource for scientists studying modern andancient margins, and an educational text for advanced students insedimentology and stratigraphy