Pelagic sediments, on land and under the sea : proceedings of a symposium held at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich, 25-6 September, 1973 / sponsored by the International Association of Sedimentologists and the European Geophysical Society ; edited by Kenneth J. Hsü and Hugh C. Jenkyns.

Includes bibliographical references.

-- Plate stratigraphy and the fluctuating carbonate line / W.H. Berger and E.L. Winterer -- Preservation of cephalopod skeletons and carbonate dissolution on ancient Tethyan sea floors / Wolfgang Schlager -- Sedimentology of Palaeozoic pelagic limestones : the Devonian Griotte (southern France) and Cephalopodenkalk (Germany) / Maurice E. Tucker -- Deep-water limestones from the Devonian-Carboniferous of the Carnic Alps, Austria / Klaus Bandel -- Pelagic ooze-chalk-limestone transition and its implications for marine stratigraphy / Seymour O. Schlanger and Robert G. Douglas -- Some aspects of cementation in chalk / J. Neugebauer -- Diagenesis of Upper Cretaceous chalks from England, Northern Ireland and the North Sea / Peter A. Scholle -- Maastrichtian chalk of north-west Europe -- a pelagic shelf sediment / E. Håkansson, R. Bromley and K. Perch-Nielsen -- Magnesian-calcite nodules in the Ionian deep sea : an actualistic model for the formation of some nodular limestones / Jens Müller and Frank Fabricius -- Origin of red nodular limestones (Ammonitico Rosso, Knollenkalke) in the Mediterranean Jurassic : a diagenetic model / Hugh C. Jenkyns -- Deposition and diagenesis of silica in marine sediments / S.E. Calvert -- Chertification of oceanic sediments / Sherwood W. Wise Jr. and Fred M. Weaver -- Petrography and diagenesis of deep-sea cherts from the central Atlantic / Ulrich von Rad and Heinrich Rösch -- Formation of deep-sea chert : role of the sedimentary environment (abstract) / Yves Lancelot -- Siliceous turbidites : bedded cherts as redeposited ocean ridge-derived sediments / Euan G. Nisbet and Ilfryn Price -- Radiolarian cherts, pelagic limestones and igneous rocks in eugeosynclinal assemblages / Robert E. Garrison -- Origin and fate of ferromanganoan active ridge sediments (abstract) / Kurt Boström -- Pelagic sediments in the Cretaceous and Tertiary history of the Troodos Massif, Cyprus / A.H.F. Robertson and J.D. Hudson -- Encrusting organisms in deep-sea manganese nodules / J. Wendt.