Саmbridge University Press, 2008, 815 pages
This unique textbook brings together the traditional disciplines of sedimentology and geomorphology to explain Earth surface processes, landforms and sediment deposits in a comprehensive and integrated way. It is the ideal resource for a two-semester course in sedimentology, stratigraphy, geomorphology, and Earth surface processes from the intermediate undergraduate to beginning graduate level. The book is also accompanied by a website hosting illustrations and material on field and laboratory methods for measuring, describing and analyzing Earth surface processes, landforms and sediments.
Introduction
Definitions, rationale, and scope of the book
Overview of the Earth
Production of sediment at the Earth’s surface
Weathering of rocks, production of terrigenous sediment, and soils
Biogenic and chemogenic sediment production
Fundamentals of fluid flow, sediment transport, erosion, and deposition
Unidirectional turbulent water flow, sediment transport, erosion, and deposition
Air flow, sediment transport, erosion, and deposition
Multidirectional water flow, sediment transport, erosion, and deposition
Movement of sediment by gravity
Generation and movement of volcaniclastic sediment
Ice flow, sediment transport, erosion, and deposition
Biogenic and chemogenic depositional structures
Post-depositional deformation of soft sediment
Environments of erosion and deposition
Rivers, alluvial plains, and fans
Lakes
Coasts and shallow seas
Arid environments
Glacial and periglacial environments
Deep seas and oceans
Sediment into rock: diagenesis
Diagenesis
Long-term, large-scale processes: mountains and sedimentary basins
Tectonic, climatic, and eustatic controls on long-term, large-scale erosion and deposition
This unique textbook brings together the traditional disciplines of sedimentology and geomorphology to explain Earth surface processes, landforms and sediment deposits in a comprehensive and integrated way. It is the ideal resource for a two-semester course in sedimentology, stratigraphy, geomorphology, and Earth surface processes from the intermediate undergraduate to beginning graduate level. The book is also accompanied by a website hosting illustrations and material on field and laboratory methods for measuring, describing and analyzing Earth surface processes, landforms and sediments.
Introduction
Definitions, rationale, and scope of the book
Overview of the Earth
Production of sediment at the Earth’s surface
Weathering of rocks, production of terrigenous sediment, and soils
Biogenic and chemogenic sediment production
Fundamentals of fluid flow, sediment transport, erosion, and deposition
Unidirectional turbulent water flow, sediment transport, erosion, and deposition
Air flow, sediment transport, erosion, and deposition
Multidirectional water flow, sediment transport, erosion, and deposition
Movement of sediment by gravity
Generation and movement of volcaniclastic sediment
Ice flow, sediment transport, erosion, and deposition
Biogenic and chemogenic depositional structures
Post-depositional deformation of soft sediment
Environments of erosion and deposition
Rivers, alluvial plains, and fans
Lakes
Coasts and shallow seas
Arid environments
Glacial and periglacial environments
Deep seas and oceans
Sediment into rock: diagenesis
Diagenesis
Long-term, large-scale processes: mountains and sedimentary basins
Tectonic, climatic, and eustatic controls on long-term, large-scale erosion and deposition