Sedimentary Environments: Processes, Facies and Stratigraphy

by Harold G. Reading (Editor)

Overview

Sedimentary Environments is one of the most distinguished and influential textbooks in the earth sciences published in the last 20 years. The first and second editions both won universal praise and became classic works in sedimentology. Since the publication of the last edition, the study of sedimentary environments and facies has made great strides, with major advances in facies modelling, sequence stratigraphy and basin modelling. The 3rd edition of this classic text will likely set the benchmark even higher, and needless to say, will continue being the textbook of choice for sedimentology students.

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• The latest edition of a classic text.
  
• Incorporates all the latest advances in dynamic stratigraphy.
  
• Will remain the textbook of choice for upper level undergraduate and graduate students in sedimentology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781118687635
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	07/03/2013
Sold by:	JOHN WILEY & SONS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	704
File size:	54 MB
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About the Author

Harold G. Reading is the author of Sedimentary Environments: Processes, Facies and Stratigraphy, 3rd Edition, published by Wiley.

Table of Contents

Contributors.

Preface.

1. Introduction (H.G. Reading).

2. Controls on the sedimentary rock record (H.G. Reading & B.K. Levell).

3. Alluvial sediments (J.D. Collinson).

4. Lakes (M.R. Talbot and P.A. Allen).

5. Desert aeolian systems (G.A. Kocurek).

6. Clastic coasts (H.G. Reading & J.D. Collinson).

7. Shallow clastic seas (H.D. Johnson & C.T. Baldwin).

8. Marine evaporites: arid shorelines and basins (A.C. Kendall & G.M. Harwood).

9. Shallow-water carbonate environments (V.P. Wright & T.P. Burchette).

10. Deep seas (D.A.V. Stow, H.G. Reading & J.D. Collinson).

11. Glacial sediments (J.M.G. Miller).

12. Volcanic environments (G.J. Orton).

13. Problems and perspectives (H.G. Reading).

References.

Index.

Editorial Reviews

"...definitely one of the best summaries and best written statements on the subject available today.... Every sedimentologist, stratigrapher, sedimentary petrologist and earth resources geologist should have a copy in their personal library." (Journal of Sedimentary Petrology)

From the Publisher

Substantially reorganized from its last edition (1986), this text shows how ancient environments may be reconstructed by interpreting the process or processes which gave rise to sedimentary rocks and the environment in which these processes operated. Chapters cover controls on the sedimentary rock record, alluvial sediments, lakes, desert aeolian systems, clastic coasts, shallow clastic seas, marine evaporites, shallow- water carbonate environments, deep seas, glacial sediments, and volcanic environments. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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