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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
- End User License Agreement
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