{"product_id":"sedimentology-and-sedimentary-basins-isbn-9781405177832","title":"Sedimentology and Sedimentary Basins","description":"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.  \u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface xi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements xiii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 1: Making Sediment\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 Clastic sediment as a chemical and physical breakdown product 3\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.1 Introduction: clastic sediments—‘accidents’ of weathering 3\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.2 Silicate minerals and chemical weathering 5\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.3 Solute flux: rates and mechanisms of silicate chemical weathering 12\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.4 Physical weathering 17\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.5 Soils as valves and filters for the natural landscape 18\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.6 Links between soil age, chemical weathering and weathered-rock removal 21\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.7 Provenance: siliciclastic sedimentsourcing 22\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther reading 25\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 Carbonate, siliceous, iron-rich and evaporite sediments 27\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.1 Marine vs. freshwater chemical composition and fluxes 27\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.2 The calcium carbonate system in the oceans 28\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.3 Ooid carbonate grains 31\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.4 Carbonate grains from marine plants and animals 35\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.5 Carbonate muds, oozes and chalks 37\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.6 Other carbonate grains of biological origins 37\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.7 Organic productivity, sea-level and atmospheric controls of biogenic CaCO\u003csub\u003e3\u003c\/sub\u003e deposition rates 38\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.8 CaCO\u003csub\u003e3\u003c\/sub\u003e dissolution in the deep ocean and the oceanic CaCO\u003csub\u003e3\u003c\/sub\u003e compensation mechanism 39\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.9 The carbonate system on land 41\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.10 Evaporite salts and their inorganic precipitation as sediment 43\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.11 Silica and pelagic plankton 47\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.12 Iron minerals and biomineralizers 48\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.13 Desert varnish 51\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.14 Phosphates 52\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.15 Primary microbial-induced sediments: algal mats and stromatolites 52\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther reading 54\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 Sediment grain properties 57\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.1 General 57\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.2 Grain size 57\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.3 Grain-size distributions 59\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.4 Grain shape and form 61\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.5 Bulk properties of grain aggregates 61\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther reading 62\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 2: Moving Fluid\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 Fluid basics 69\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.1 Material properties of fluids 69\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.2 Fluid kinematics 73\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.3 Fluid continuity with constant density 79\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.4 Fluid dynamics 79\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.5 Energy, mechanical work and power 81\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther reading 82\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 Types of fluid motion 84\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.1 Osborne Reynolds and flow types 84\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.2 The distribution of velocity in viscous flows: the boundary layer 87\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.3 Turbulent flows 88\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.4 The structure of turbulent shear flows 90\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.5 Shear flow instabilities, flow separation and secondary currents 96\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.6 Subcritical and supercritical flows: the Froude number and hydraulic jumps 100\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.7 Stratified flow generally 102\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.8 Water waves 103\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.9 Tidal flow—long-period waves 109\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther reading 109\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 3: Transporting Sediment\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 111\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 Sediment in fluid and fluid flow—general 113\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.1 Fall of grains through stationary fluids 113\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.2 Natural flows carrying particulate material are complex 115\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.3 Fluids as transporting machines 116\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.4 Initiation of grain motion 116\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.5 Paths of grain motion 120\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.6 Categories of transported sediment 121\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.7 Some contrasts between wind and water flows 122\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.8 Cohesive sediment transport and erosion 124\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.9 A warning: nonequilibrium effects dominate natural sediment transport systems 127\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.10 Steady state, deposition or erosion: the sediment continuity equation and competence vs. capacity 129\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther reading 130\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7 Bedforms and sedimentary structures in flows and under waves 132\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.1 Trinity of interaction: turbulent flow, sediment transport and bedform development 132\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.2 Water-flow bedforms 132\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.3 Bedform phase diagrams for water flows 147\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.4 Water flow erosional bedforms on cohesive beds 151\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.5 Water wave bedforms 154\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.6 Combined flows: wave–current ripples and hummocky cross-stratification 158\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.7 Bedforms and structures formed by atmospheric flows 159\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther reading 169\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8 Sediment gravity flows and their deposits 171\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.1 Introduction 171\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.2 Granular flows 172\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.3 Debris flows 177\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.4 Turbidity flows 184\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.5 Turbidite evidence for downslope transformation from turbidity to debris flows 192\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther reading 193\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e9 Liquefaction fluidization and sliding sediment deformation 198\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.1 Liquefaction 198\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.2 Sedimentary structures formed by and during liquefaction 200\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.3 Submarine landslides, growth faults and slumps 203\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.4 Desiccation and synaeresis shrinkage structures 205\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther reading 208\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 4: Major External Controls on Sedimentation and Sedimentary Environments\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 209\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e10 Major external controls on sedimentation 213\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.1 Climate 213\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.2 Global climates: a summary 214\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.3 Sea-level changes 221\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.4 Tectonics 229\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.5 Sediment yield, denudation rate and the sedimentary record 231\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther reading 239\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 5: Continental Sedimentary Environments\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 241\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e11 Rivers 245\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.1 Introduction 245\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.2 River networks, hydrographs, patterns and long profiles 245\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.3 Channel form 247\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.4 Channel sediment transport processes, bedforms and internal structures 252\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.5 The floodplain 265\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.6 Channel belts, alluvial ridges and avulsion 269\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.7 River channel changes, adjustable variables and equilibrium 271\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.8 Alluvial architecture: product of complex responses 274\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.9 Alluvial architecture: scale, controls and time 278\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther reading 280\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e12 Subaerial Fans: Alluvial and Colluvial 282\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12.1 Introduction 282\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12.2 Controls on the size (area) and gradient of fans 284\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12.3 Physical processes on alluvial fans 285\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12.4 Debris-flow-dominated alluvial fans 287\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12.5 Stream-flow-dominated alluvial fans 288\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12.6 Recognition of ancient alluvial fans and talus cones 289\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther reading 294\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e13 Aeolian Sediments in Low-Latitude Deserts 295\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13.1 Introduction 295\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13.2 Aeolian system state 297\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13.3 Physical processes and erg formation 297\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13.4 Erg margins and interbedform areas 301\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13.5 Erg and draa evolution and sedimentary architecture 305\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13.6 Erg construction, stasis and destruction: climate and sea-level controls 307\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13.7 Ancient desert facies 312\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther reading 316\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e14 Lakes 319\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14.1 Introduction 319\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14.2 Lake stratification 320\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14.3 Clastic input by rivers and the effect of turbidity currents 321\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14.4 Wind-forced physical processes 322\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14.5 Temperate lake chemical processes and cycles 323\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14.6 Saline lake chemical processes and cycles 324\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14.7 Biological processes and cycles 329\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14.8 Modern temperate lakes and their sedimentary facies 331\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14.9 Lakes in the East African rifts 331\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14.10 Lake Baikal 333\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14.11 The succession of facies as lakes evolve 335\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14.12 Ancient lake facies 337\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther reading 342\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e15 Ice 344\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15.1 Introduction 344\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15.2 Physical processes of ice flow 345\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15.3 Glacier flow, basal lubrication and surges 347\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15.4 Sediment transport, erosion and deposition by flowing ice 350\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15.5 Glacigenic sediment: nomenclature and classification 351\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15.6 Quaternary and modern glacial environments and facies 354\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15.7 Ice-produced glacigenic erosion and depositional facies on land and in the periglacial realm 354\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15.8 Glaciofluvial processes on land at and within the ice-front 357\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15.9 Glacimarine environments 358\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15.10 Glacilacustrine environments 361\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15.11 Glacial facies in the pre-Quaternary geological record: case of Cenozoic Antarctica 362\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther reading 365\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 6: Marine Sedimentary Environments\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 367\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e16 Estuaries 371\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16.1 Introduction 371\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16.2 Estuarine dynamics 371\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16.3 Modern estuarine morphology and sedimentary environments 376\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16.4 Estuaries and sequence stratigraphy 379\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther reading 385\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e17 River and Fan Deltas 386\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17.1 Introduction to river deltas 386\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17.2 Basic physical processes and sedimentation at the river delta front 387\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17.3 Mass movements and slope failure on the subaqueous delta 390\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17.4 Organic deposition in river deltas 392\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17.5 River delta case histories 392\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17.6 River deltas and sea-level change 405\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17.7 Ancient river delta deposits 412\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17.8 Fan deltas 412\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther reading 415\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e18 Linear Siliciclastic Shorelines 417\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18.1 Introduction 417\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18.2 Beach processes and sedimentation 418\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18.3 Barrier–inlet-spit systems and their deposits 426\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18.4 Tidal flats, salt marsh and chenier ridges 431\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18.5 Ancient clastic shoreline facies 436\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther reading 438\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e19 Siliciclastic Shelves\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19.1 Introduction: shelf sinks and lowstand bypass 440\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19.2 Shelf water dynamics 443\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19.3 Holocene highstand shelf sediments: general 447\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19.4 Tide-dominated, low river input, highstand shelves 447\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19.5 Tide-dominated, high river input, highstand shelves 451\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19.6 Weather-dominated highstand shelves 453\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther reading 459\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e20 Calcium-carbonate–evaporite Shorelines, Shelves and Basins 461\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20.1 Introduction: calcium carbonate ‘nurseries’ and their consequences 461\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20.2 Arid carbonate tidal flats, lagoons and evaporite sabkhas 464\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20.3 Humid carbonate tidal flats and marshes 467\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20.4 Lagoons and bays 470\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20.5 Tidal delta and margin-spillover carbonate tidal sands 472\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20.6 Open-shelf carbonate ramps 474\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20.7 Platform margin reefs and carbonate build-ups 482\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20.8 Platform margin slopes and basins 493\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20.9 Carbonate sediments, cycles and sea-level change 499\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20.10 Displacement and destruction of carbonate environments: siliciclastic input and eutrophication 502\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20.11 Subaqueous saltern evaporites 504\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther reading 509\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e21 Deep Ocean 514\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21.1 Introduction 514\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21.2 Sculpturing and resedimentation: gullies, canyons and basin-floor channels 515\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21.3 Well caught: intraslope basins 525\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21.4 Resedimentation: slides, slumps, linked debris\/turbidity flows on the slope and basin plain 526\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21.5 Continental margin deposition: fans and aprons 530\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21.6 Continental margin deposition: turbidite pathway systems connecting slopes and basin plains 543\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21.7 Continental margin deposition: thermohaline currents and contourite drifts 543\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21.8 Oceanic biological and chemical processes 547\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21.9 Oceanic pelagic sediments 550\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21.10 Oceanic anoxic pelagic sediments 551\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21.11 Palaeo-oceanography 553\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther reading 557\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 7: Architecture of Sedimentary Basins\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 561\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e22 Sediment in Sedimentary Basins: A User’s Guide 563\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22.1 Continental rift basins 563\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22.2 Proto-oceanic rifts 574\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22.3 Coastal plains, shelf terraces and continental rises 574\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22.4 Convergent\/destructive margin basins: some general comments 576\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22.5 Subduction zones: trenches and trench-slope basins 578\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22.6 Fore-arc basins 580\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22.7 Intra-arc basins 581\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22.8 Back-arc basins 583\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22.9 Foreland basins 585\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22.10 Strike-slip basins 597\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22.11 A note on basin inversion 599\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther reading 599\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 8: Topics: Sediment Solutions to Interdisciplinary Problems\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 601\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e23 Sediments Solve Wider Interdisciplinary Problems 605\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23.1 Sediments, global tectonics and seawater composition 605\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23.2 Banded Iron Formations, rise of cyanobacteria and secular change in global tectonics 607\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23.3 Tibetan Plateau uplift; palaeoaltimetry and monsoon intensity 609\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23.4 Colorado Plateau uplift and Grand Canyon incision dated by speleothem carbonate 614\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23.5 River channels and large-scale regional tilting 614\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23.6 Regional drainage reversal 617\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23.7 Sediment budgeting and modelling of foreland basins 617\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23.8 Lengthwise growth and fault amalgamation 618\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23.9 Rivers, basement uplifts, tilting and fault growth 622\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23.10 Unsteady strain and the sedimentary response 623\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23.11 Tectonics and climate as depositional controls 626\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23.12 River equilibrium, incision and aggradation—away from the knee-jerk of tectonic explanation 628\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23.13 Integrated sedimentary systems: modelling tectonics, sediment yield and sea level change 629\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23.14 Extraterrestrial sedimentology—atmospheric and liquid flows on Mars 635\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23.15 Suborbital surprises: reefs and speleothem as fine-scale tuners of the Pleistocene sea-level curve 638\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23.16 Speleothem: Rosetta stone for past climate 641\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther reading 644\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCookies 646\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMaths Appendix 697\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 702\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 753\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eColour plates fall between pp. 402 and 403\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e“For them, I cannot recommend it too highly, this being a lifetime of scholarly endeavour encapsulated in one volume. It will, I am sure, be a standard reference for years to come.”  (\u003ci\u003eGeology Today\u003c\/i\u003e, 1 May 2011)\u003c\/p\u003e \"The book is designed to reach an audience of senior undergraduate and graduate students and interested academic and industry professionals.\" (Solid Waste \u0026amp; Recycling, 8 March 2011) \u003cb\u003eMike Leeder\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor Emeritus at the \u003cst1:place w:st=\"on\"\u003e\u003cst1:placetype w:st=\"on\"\u003eUniversity\u003c\/st1:placetype\u003e of \u003cst1:placename w:st=\"on\"\u003eEast Anglia\u003c\/st1:placename\u003e\u003c\/st1:place\u003e, \u003cst1:place w:st=\"on\"\u003e\u003cst1:city w:st=\"on\"\u003eNorwich\u003c\/st1:city\u003e, \u003cst1:country-region w:st=\"on\"\u003eEngland\u003c\/st1:country-region\u003e\u003c\/st1:place\u003e. A geologist by training, at the \u003cst1:place w:st=\"on\"\u003e\u003cst1:placetype w:st=\"on\"\u003eUniversity\u003c\/st1:placetype\u003e of \u003cst1:placename w:st=\"on\"\u003eDurham\u003c\/st1:placename\u003e\u003c\/st1:place\u003e, he has researched and taught sedimentology since 1969, beginning as a graduate student at the Sedimentological Research Laboratory, \u003cst1:place w:st=\"on\"\u003e\u003cst1:placetype w:st=\"on\"\u003eUniversity\u003c\/st1:placetype\u003e of \u003cst1:placename w:st=\"on\"\u003eReading\u003c\/st1:placename\u003e\u003c\/st1:place\u003e under the legendary Perce Allen and as faculty member at the Universities of Leeds and \u003cst1:country-region w:st=\"on\"\u003e\u003cst1:place w:st=\"on\"\u003eEast Anglia\u003c\/st1:place\u003e\u003c\/st1:country-region\u003e. He is particularly interested in sedimentological fluid dynamics, basin analysis and the links between sedimentary processes and climate change.  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.  \u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990000222437,"sku":"NP9781405177832","price":93.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781405177832.jpg?v=1761786165","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/sedimentology-and-sedimentary-basins-isbn-9781405177832","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}