Definition
Erosion is the processes whereby the detritus and solutes resulting from the weathering of sediments and rock are transported to a site of deposition. Hiatus derives from the Latin, meaning a gap in something. In its geological sense, a hiatus represents either a cessation in deposition of sediments, resulting in an interval during which no strata form, or an erosional surface within the stratigraphic sequence representing a gap in the rock record.
History
Prior to the introduction of the ideas of seafloor spreading and plate tectonics, documented by the recovery of long sequences of ocean basin sediments by the Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP) in the late 1960s and 1970s, it was thought that the deep sea was the repository of an essentially undisturbed monotonous but continuous multibillion-year record of Earth history. It was thought that sedimentation had been slow but continuous in a sluggish environment that had always been cold. The first estimates of the velocities of...
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Hay, W.W. (2015). Erosion Hiatuses. In: Harff, J., Meschede, M., Petersen, S., Thiede, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Marine Geosciences. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6644-0_57-5
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