Sedimentology and Sedimentary Basins: From Turbulence to by Mike R. Leeder

By Mike R. Leeder

The sedimentary checklist in the world stretches again greater than 4.3 billion years and is found in extra abbreviated varieties on better half planets of the sun approach, like Mars and Venus, and probably in different places. interpreting such planetary records effectively calls for intimate wisdom of recent sedimentary approaches performing in the framework supplied through tectonics, weather and sea or lake point diversifications. the topic of sedimentology therefore encompasses the origins, delivery and deposition of mineral sediment on planetary surfaces.

The writer addresses the rules of the topic from the point of view of recent techniques, emphasising a common technological know-how narrative strategy by and large textual content, with quantitative history derived in permitting ‘cookie’ appendices. The e-book ends with an cutting edge bankruptcy facing how sedimentology is at present informing quite a few cognate disciplines, from the timing and volume tectonic uplift to diversifications in palaeoclimate. each one bankruptcy concludes with an in depth consultant to key extra analyzing resulting in a wide bibliography of over 2500 entries. The booklet is designed to arrive an viewers of senior undergraduate and graduate scholars and educational and professionals.

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