Sedimentology and Sedimentary Basins: From Turbulence to Tectonics - Softcover

Leeder, Mike R.

9780632049769: Sedimentology and Sedimentary Basins: From Turbulence to Tectonics

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0632049766 ISBN 13: 9780632049769

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 1999

Sedimentology is a core discipline of earth and environmental sciences. It enquires the origins, transport and deposition of mineral sediment on the Earth's surface. The subject is a link between positive effects arising from the building of relief by tectonics and the negative action of denudation in drainage catchments and tectonic subsidence in sedimentary basins.

The author addresses the principles of the subject, emphasising the advantages of a general science approach and the importance of understanding modern processes. Sedimentology and Sedimentary Basins is not an encyclopaedia, but attempts to stimulate interdisciplinary thought across the whole subject area and related disciplines. The book has been designed to meet the needs of earth and environmental science undergraduates.

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Book Description:

Sedimentology and Sedimentary Basins provides an intermediate/advanced text that outlines the principle explanations for sedimentary and related processes. The author's philosophy is to provide clear physical and/or chemical explanations for sedimentary phenomena, and to show how sedimentary processes apply to various other earth science disciplines, particularly the evolution of sedimentary basins.

From the Back Cover:

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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