Description
WILEY INDIA Sedimentology And Sedimentary Basins From Turbulence To Tectonics 2Nd Edition by Mike Leeder
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.
About the Author
Mike Leeder is Professor Emeritus at the University of East Anglia
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
Acknowledgements
Part 1: Making Sediment
1 Clastic sediment as a chemical and physical breakdown product
2 Carbonate, siliceous, iron-rich and evaporate sediments
3 Sediment grain properties
Part 2: Moving Fluid
4 Fluid basics
5 Types of fluid motion
Part 3: Transporting Sediment
6 Sediment in fluid and fluid flow--general
7 Bedforms and sedimentary structures in flows and under waves
8 Sediment gravity flows and their deposits
9 Liquefaction, fluidization and sliding sediment deformation
Part 4: Major External Controls on Sedimentation and Sedimentary Environments
10 Major external controls on sedimentation
Part 5: Continental Sedimentary Environments
11 Rivers
12 Subaerial Fans: Alluvial and Colluvial
13 Aeolian Sediments in Low-Latitude Deserts
14 Lakes
15 Ice
Part 6: Marine Sedimentary Environments
16 Estuaries
17 River and Fan Deltas
18 Linear Siliciclastic Shorelines
19 Siliciclastic Shelves
20 Calcium-carbonate--evaporite Shorelines
21 Deep Ocean
Part 7: Architecture of Sedimentary Basins
22 Sediment in Sedimentary Basins: A User's Guide
Part 8: Topics: Sediment Solutions to Interdisciplinary Problems
23 Sediments Solve Wider Interdisciplinary
Cookies
Maths Appendix
References
Index
Colour plates fall between pp. 402 and 403