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Sedimentology and Sedimentary Basins – From Turbulence to Tectonics 2e

Autor MR Leeder
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 ian 2011
The sedimentary record on Earth stretches back more than 4.3 billion years and is present in more abbreviated forms on companion planets of the Solar System, like Mars and Venus, and doubtless elsewhere. Reading such planetary archives correctly requires intimate knowledge of modern sedimentary processes acting within the framework provided by tectonics, climate and sea or lake level variations. The subject of sedimentology thus encompasses the origins, transport and deposition of mineral sediment on planetary surfaces. The author addresses the principles of the subject from the viewpoint of modern processes, emphasising a general science narrative approach in the main text, with quantitative background derived in enabling 'cookie' appendices. The book ends with an innovative chapter dealing with how sedimentology is currently informing a variety of cognate disciplines, from the timing and extent tectonic uplift to variations in palaeoclimate. Each chapter concludes with a detailed guide to key further reading leading to a large bibliography of over 2500 entries. The book is designed to reach an audience of senior undergraduate and graduate students and interested academic and industry professionals.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781405177832
ISBN-10: 1405177837
Pagini: 784
Ilustrații: Illustrations, maps
Dimensiuni: 193 x 249 x 38 mm
Greutate: 1.68 kg
Ediția:2nd Edition
Editura: Wiley
Locul publicării:Chichester, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Senior undergraduate and graduate students and interested academic and industry professionals

Cuprins

Part 1 Making Sediment Chapter 1 Clastic sediment as chemical and physical breakdown products Chapter 2 Carbonate, siliceous, iron-rich and evaporite sediments Chapter 3 Sediment grain properties Part 2 Moving fluid Chapter 4 Fluid basics Chapter 5 Types of Fluid Motion Part 3 Transporting sediment Chapter 6 Sediment in fluid and fluid flow - general Chapter 7 Bedforms and sedimentary structures in flows and under waves Chapter 8 Sediment gravity flows and their deposits Chapter 9 Liquefaction, fluidisation and sliding sediment deformation Part 4 Major external controls on sedimentation and sedimentary environments Chapter 10 Major External Controls on Sedimentation Part 5 Continental Sedimentary Environments Chapter 11 Rivers Chapter 12 Subaerial fans: alluvial and colluvial Chapter 13Aeolian sediments in low-latitude deserts Chapter 14 Lakes Chapter 15 Ice Part 6 Marine Sedimentary Environments Chapter 16 Estuaries Chapter 17 River and fan deltas Chapter 18 Linear clastic shorelines Chapter 19 Shelves Chapter 20 Calcium carbonate-evaporite shorelines, shelves and basins Chapter 21 Deep ocean Part 7 Sedimentary Architecture of Sedimentary basins Chapter 22 Sediment in sedimentary basins: a user's guide Part 8 Topics: Sediment solutions to interdisciplinary problems Chapter 23 Sediments solve wider interdisciplinary problems

Notă biografică

Mike Leeder is Professor Emeritus at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, England. A geologist by training, at the University of Durham, he has researched and taught sedimentology since 1969, beginning as a graduate student at the Sedimentological Research Laboratory, University of Reading under the legendary Perce Allen and as faculty member at the Universities of Leeds and East Anglia. He is particularly interested in sedimentological fluid dynamics, basin analysis and the links between sedimentary processes and climate change.