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• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Preface
• An Undergraduate Text
• Definitions of Terms
• Cross‐referencing
• References
• Acknowledgements
• Diagrams and Photographs
• About the Companion Website
• PART A: Sedimentary Materials, Processes and Products
• CHAPTER 1: Introduction to Sedimentology and Stratigraphy
• 1.1 Overview
• 1.2 Sedimentology
• 1.3 Stratigraphy
• 1.4 Sedimentology and Stratigraphy
• Further Reading
• CHAPTER 2: Clastic Sediments: Gravel, Sand and Mud
• 2.1 Classification of Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks
• 2.2 Gravel and Conglomerate
• 2.3 Sand and Sandstone
• 2.4 Clay, Silt and Mudrock
• 2.5 Textures and Analysis of Clastic Sedimentary Rocks
• 2.6 Clastic Sediments: Summary
• Further Reading
• CHAPTER 3: Biogenic, Chemical and Volcanogenic Sediments
• 3.1 Limestone
• 3.2 Evaporite Minerals
• 3.3 Cherts
• 3.4 Sedimentary Phosphates
• 3.5 Sedimentary Ironstone
• 3.6 Carbonaceous (Organic) Deposits
• 3.7 Volcaniclastic Sedimentary Rocks
• Further Reading
• CHAPTER 4: Processes of Transport and Sedimentary Structures
• 4.1 Transport Media
• 4.2 The Behaviour of Fluids and Particles in Fluids
• 4.3 Flows, Sediment and Bedforms
• 4.4 Waves
• 4.5 Sediment Gravity Flows
• 4.6 Mudcracks
• 4.7 Erosional Sedimentary Structures
• 4.8 Terminology for Sedimentary Structures and Beds
• 4.9 Sedimentary Structures and Sedimentary Environments
• Further Reading
• CHAPTER 5: Field Sedimentology, Facies and Environments
• 5.1 Field Sedimentology
• 5.2 Graphic Sedimentary Logs
• 5.3 Palaeocurrents
• 5.4 Sampling Sedimentary Rocks
• 5.5 Description of Core
• 5.6 Interpreting Past Depositional Environments
• 5.7 Reconstructing Palaeoenvironments
• 5.8 Summary: Facies and Environments
• Further Reading
• PART B: Continental Environments
• CHAPTER 6: Continental Environments and Sources of Sediment
• 6.1 From Source of Sediment to Formation of Strata
• 6.2 Tectonic Uplift
• 6.3 Global Climate
• 6.4 Weathering Processes
• 6.5 Erosion and Transport
• 6.6 Denudation and Landscape Evolution
• 6.7 Continental Environments of Deposition
• Further Reading
• CHAPTER 7: Glacial Environments
• 7.1 Distribution of Glacial Environments
• 7.2 Glacial Ice
• 7.3 Continental Glacial Environments
• 7.4 Continental Glacial Deposition
• 7.5 Marine Glacial Environments
• 7.6 Glacial Deposits in the Stratigraphic Record
• 7.7 Glacial Sedimentology and Stratigraphy
• Further Reading
• CHAPTER 8: Aeolian Environments
• 8.1 Aeolian Transport
• 8.2 Characteristics of Wind‐blown Particles
• 8.3 Desert Environments
• 8.4 Aeolian Bedforms
• 8.5 Stratigraphic Record of Aeolian Deposits
• 8.6 Aeolian Deposits Outside Deserts
• 8.7 Summary
• Further Reading
• CHAPTER 9: Rivers and Alluvial Fans
• 9.1 Fluvial and Alluvial Systems
• 9.2 River Channels
• 9.3 Floodplain Deposition
• 9.4 Alluvial Fans
• 9.5 Fossils in Fluvial and Alluvial Environments
• 9.6 Soils and Palaeosols
• 9.7 Fluvial and Alluvial Stratigraphy
• Further Reading
• CHAPTER 10: Lakes
• 10.1 Lakes and Lacustrine Environments
• 10.2 Freshwater Lakes
• 10.3 Freshwater Lake Clastic Deposits
• 10.4 Saline Lakes
• 10.5 Ephemeral Lakes
• 10.6 Lacustrine Carbonates
• 10.7 Lacustrine Stratigraphy
• 10.8 Recognition of Lacustrine Facies in the Stratigraphic Record
• Further Reading
• CHAPTER 11: Volcanic Rocks and Sediments
• 11.1 Volcanic Rocks and Sediment
• 11.2 Transport and Deposition of Volcaniclastic Material
• 11.3 Eruption Styles
• 11.4 Facies Associations in Volcanic Successions
• 11.5 Volcanic Material in Other Environments
• 11.6 Volcanic Rocks in Earth History
• Further Reading
• PART C: Marine Environments
• CHAPTER 12: The Marine Realm: Morphology and Processes
• 12.1 Oceans and Seas
• 12.2 Oceanic Currents
• 12.3 Wave and Storm Processes
• 12.4 Tides
• 12.5 Chemical and Biochemical Sedimentation in Oceans
• 12.6 Marine Fossils
• 12.7 Trace Fossils
• Further Reading
• CHAPTER 13: Deltas
• 13.1 Modern Deltas
• 13.2 Variations in Delta Morphology
• 13.3 Syndepositional Deformation in Deltas
• 13.4 Deltaic Successions
• 13.5 Deltaic Cycles and Stratigraphy
• 13.6 Fossils in Deltaic Deposits
• 13.7 Recognition of Deltaic Deposits
• Further Reading
• CHAPTER 14: Clastic Coasts and Estuaries
• 14.1 Coasts
• 14.2 Beaches
• 14.3 Wave‐dominated Coastlines
• 14.4 Tidally Influenced Coastal Systems
• 14.5 Estuaries
• 14.6 Fossils in Coastal and Estuarine Environments
• 14.7 Recognition of Coastal and Estuarine Systems
• Further Reading
• CHAPTER 15: Shallow Sandy Seas
• 15.1 Shallow Marine Environments
• 15.2 Storm and Wave‐dominated Shallow Clastic Seas
• 15.3 Tide‐dominated Clastic Shallow Seas
• 15.4 Responses to Change in Sea Level
• 15.5 Fossils in Sandy Shelf Successions
• 15.6 Criteria for the Recognition of Sandy Shallow Marine Sediments
• Further Reading
• CHAPTER 16: Shallow Marine Carbonate and Evaporite Environments
• 16.1 Carbonate and Evaporite Depositional Environments
• 16.2 Coastal Carbonate and Evaporite Environments
• 16.3 Shallow Marine Carbonate Deposits
• 16.4 Carbonate Platform Facies and Successions
• 16.5 Marine Evaporites
• 16.6 Mixed Carbonate‐clastic Environments
• 16.7 Recognition of Shallow Marine Carbonate and Evaporite Facies
• Further Reading
• CHAPTER 17: Deep Marine Environments
• 17.1 The Deep Seas
• 17.2 Sediment Gravity Flow Processes in Deep Seas
• 17.3 Submarine Fans
• 17.4 Ancient Submarine Fan Systems
• 17.5 Slope Aprons
• 17.6 Ocean Current and Pelagic Sedimentation
• 17.7 Chemogenic Sediments
• 17.8 Fossils in Deep Ocean Sediments
• Further Reading
• PART D: Post‐depositional Processes
• CHAPTER 18: Soft Sediment Deformation
• 18.1 Deformation After Deposition
• 18.2 Large‐scale Post‐depositional Features
• Further Reading
• CHAPTER 19: Diagenesis
• 19.1 Diagenetic Processes
• 19.2 Clastic Diagenesis
• 19.3 Carbonate Diagenesis
• 19.4 Diagenesis of Volcaniclastic Sediments
• 19.5 Formation of Coal, Oil and Gas
• Further Reading
• PART E: Stratigraphy
• CHAPTER 20: Stratigraphy: Concepts and Lithostratigraphy
• 20.1 Geologic Time
• 20.2 Stratigraphic Units
• 20.3 Lithostratigraphy
• 20.4 Applications of Lithostratigraphy
• Further Reading
• CHAPTER 21: Biostratigraphy
• 21.1 Fossils in Sedimentology and Stratigraphy
• 21.2 Classification of Organisms
• 21.3 Evolutionary Trends
• 21.4 Biozones and Zone Fossils
• 21.5 Taxa Used in Biostratigraphy
• 21.6 Applied Biostratigraphy
• 21.7 Biostratigraphy and Other Stratigraphic Techniques
• Further Reading
• CHAPTER 22: Dating and Correlation Techniques
• 22.1 Techniques for Dating and Correlation
• 22.2 Radiometric dating
• 22.3 Magnetostratigraphy
• 22.4 Chemostratigraphy
• 22.5 Dating in the Quaternary
• Further Reading
• CHAPTER 23: Subsurface Stratigraphy and Sedimentology
• 23.1 Introduction to Subsurface Stratigraphy and Sedimentology
• 23.2 Seismic Reflection Data
• 23.3 Borehole Stratigraphy and Sedimentology
• 23.4 Petrophysical Logging
• 23.5 Subsurface Facies and Basin Analysis
• Further Reading
• CHAPTER 24: Sequence Stratigraphy and Sea Level Changes
• 24.1 Sea‐level Changes and Sedimentation
• 24.2 Depositional Sequences and Systems Tracts
• 24.3 Parasequences: Components of Systems Tracts
• 24.4 Carbonate Sequence Stratigraphy
• 24.5 Applications of Sequence Stratigraphy
• 24.6 Causes of Sea Level Fluctuations
• 24.7 Sequence Stratigraphy: Summary
• Further Reading
• CHAPTER 25: Sedimentary Basins
• 25.1 Controls on Sediment Accumulation
• 25.2 Basins Related to Lithospheric Extension
• 25.3 Basins Related to Subduction
• 25.4 Basins Related to Crustal Loading
• 25.5 Basins Related to Strike‐slip Tectonics
• 25.6 Complex and Hybrid Basins
• 25.7 The Record of Tectonics in Stratigraphy
• 25.8 Sedimentary Basin Analysis
• 25.9 Integrating Sedimentology and Stratigraphy: the History of the Earth’s Surface
• Further Reading
• References
• Index
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