Basics of physical stratigraphy and sedimentology

This concise volume offers one of the few modern treatments of stratigraphy and sedimentology, featuring the use of the stratigraphic code and an analysis of the history of geology in the development of stratigraphic principles. Covers important processes that form sedimentary rocks, explains the interpretation of rock sequences from outcrop scale to regional stratigraphic packages, and synthesizes rock and sedimentary structure classification schemes. Presents the basic tools for interpreting sedimentary structures using a process-approach to physical sedimentology, and reveals stratigraphic relationships not found in other texts. The text contains many illustrations, which provide compilations of standard classifications, hydrodynamic principles, and processes of sedimentation recast in an easily understandable format.

Development and Practice of Basic Principles of Stratigraphy

Classification of Sedimentary Particles and Rocks

Descriptive Classification of Bedding and Other Sedimentary Structures

Physical Processes of Sedimentation

Bed Response to Flowing Water

Transport and DepositionWind

Transport and DepositionOscillating Currents

Transport and DepositionSediment Flows

Facies and Modeling Enironments of Deposition

References

Glossary

Index

Appendix A North America Stratigraphic Code

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