separation zone 51
septarian structures 284
sequence boundary 359
sequence stratigraphy 350
series (stratigraphy) 299
serpulid 32
sessile 317
shale 21
shale diapirism 279
shallowing-up 183
sheet wash 94
sheetflood 143
shelf edge break 164
shelf-type fan deltas 188
shield volcanoes 269
shoreface 165
shoreline 199
shoreline trajectory 356
shot points 336
siderite 29
silcretes 149
siliceous ooze 38, 259
siliciclastic sediments 5
sill 271
silt 21
siltstone 21
sink points 170
sinuous ripples 51
skeletal fragments 30
skewness 25
skip marks 66
Skolithos 173
slope apron 256
slump scar 275
slumped beds 275
slumping 93
smectite group 22
soda lakes 157
soft-sediment deformation 274
soil creep 93
sole marks 65
solution 91
sonde 343
sonic log 346
sonic velocity 336
sorting 23
source rocks 41
speciation 314
species 312
spectral gamma–ray log 345
speleothems 288
sphericity 23
spill-over sand 257
sponges 32
spring tides 166
stable isotopes 333
stacking 337
stage 299
star dunes 119
starved basin 383
starved margin 386
starved ripple 52
starved shelves 216
stasis 314
Stokes Law 49
storm-dominated shelves 217
storm ridge 201
storm wave base 165
stoss side 51
straight ripples 51
strained quartz 17
strand plains 202
stratigraphic framework 85
stratigraphic traps 295
stratotype 305
stratovolcanoes 270
streamer 336
streamlines 51
stromatolites 32
stromatoporoids 32
Strombolian eruptions 269
strontium isotopes 329
structural traps 295
stylolites 288
subaqueous mouth bar 183
sub-bituminous 293
subcritical 57
subenvironments 182
subglacial channels 106
submarine canyons 248
submarine channel leve
´
e 252
submarine fan 250
submarine fan channels 251
subspecies 313
suite (stratigraphy) 306
sulphate lake 157
sulphate reduction 287
supercritical 57
supergroup (stratigraphy) 305
supraglacial debris 106
supratidal zone 230
suspended load 46
suspension 46
sutured contacts 281
swaley cross-stratification 218
swamps 292
swelling clays 22
sylvite 37
syneresis cracks 65
synsedimentary faults 395
synsedimentary structures 275
syntaxial overgrowth 382
system (stratigraphy) 299
systems tract 358
syzygy 166
tabular cross-bedding 54
talus cones 44, 94
tar sands 41
target horizons 342
taxa 312
taxon 312
taxon-range biozone 315
teardrop pattern 244
tectonic subsidence 382
telogenetic cementation 281
temperate 89
temperate glaciers 102, 105
temperature changes 90
tempestites 170
temporal framework 307
tepee structures 148, 232
tephra 42
terminal fans 138
terminal moraines 108
terrestrial rift valley 385
terrigenous 92
terrigenous clastic material 5
tests 31
textural maturity 26
texture 23
thalweg 131
thermal subsidence 385
thermochronology 100, 329
thermocline 154
thermo-haline currents 170
thermoluminescence 333
thermo-tectonic 350
thick-skinned tectonics 390
thin-section 13
thin-skinned tectonics 390
thrombolites 32
tidal bulge 165
tidal bundles 169
tidal creeks 207
tidal current 166
tidal limit 210
tide-dominated shelves 217
tide-dominated estuaries 208
tidewater glaciers 110
till 106
till sheets 110
tillite 106
time-lines 307
tonsteins 292
418 Index