Gary Nichols

Sedimentology and Stratigraphy

• Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This fully revised and updated edition introduces the reader to sedimentology and stratigraphic principles, and provides tools for the interpretation of sediments and sedimentary rocks. The processes of formation, transport, and deposition of sediment are considered and then applied to develop conceptual models for the full range of sedimentary environments, from deserts to deep seas and reefs to rivers. Different approaches to using stratigraphic principles to date and correlate strata are also considered, in order to provide a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of sedimentology and stratigraphy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Blackwell Publishing Ltd., Oxford / Wiley & Sons
• 2nd ed.
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: März 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm
• Gewicht: 1040g
• ISBN-13: 9781405135924
• ISBN-10: 1405135921
• Artikelnr.: 20898116

Autorenporträt

Gary Nichols teaches sedimentology and stratigraphy at Royal Holloway University of London, UK, and has also recently taught courses at the University Centre on Svalbard, Norway. His research interests in the analysis of facies and sedimentary basins have taken him to every continent, providing experience of a wide range of sedimentary rocks types of different ages in a variety of depositional settings.

Inhaltsangabe

From the contents:
- 1 Introduction: sedimentology and stratigraphy.
- 2 Terrigenous clastic sediments: gravel, sand and mud.
- 3 Biogenic, chemical and volcanogenic sediments.
- 4 Processes of transport and sedimentary structures.
- 5 Field sedimentology, facies and environments.
- 6 Continents: sources of sediment.
- 7 Glacial environments.
- 8 Aeolian processes.
- 9 Rivers and alluvial fans.
- 10 Lakes.
- 11 The marine realm: morphology and processes.
- 12 Deltas.
- 13 Clastic coasts and estuaries.
- 14 Shallow sandy seas.
- 15 Shallow marine carbonate and evaporite environments.
- 16 Deep marine environments.
- 17 Volcanic environments.
- 18 Post-depositional structures and diagenesis.
- 19 Stratigraphy: concepts and lithostratigraphy.
- 20 Biostratigraphy.
- 21 Dating and correlation techniques.
- 22 Subsurface stratigraphy and sedimentology.
- 23 Sequence stratigraphy and sea level changes.
- 24 Sedimentary basins

Rezensionen

"The book by Gary Nichols, a completely revised edition of his earlier work, is such a book. It is well written, clearly illustrated, and it covers (almost) all topics that are important in the two earth-science disciplines mentioned in its title." (Journal Of Sedimentary Research, June 2009)

"I think that Nicols' book is most valuable, not only for students and teachers, but also for graduates and professionals who become involved in a sedimentological topic outside their own narrow specialism." (Geologos, 2009)