Mike Leeder

Sedimentology and Sedimentary Basins

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The sedimentary record on Earth stretches back more than 4.3billion years and is present in more abbreviated forms on companionplanets of the Solar System, like Mars and Venus, and doubtlesselsewhere. Reading such planetary archives correctly requiresintimate knowledge of modern sedimentary processes acting withinthe framework provided by tectonics, climate and sea or lake levelvariations. The subject of sedimentology thus encompasses theorigins, transport and deposition of mineral sediment on planetarysurfaces.
The author addresses the principles of the subject from theviewpoint of modern processes, emphasising a general sciencenarrative approach in the main text, with quantitative backgroundderived in enabling 'cookie' appendices. The book endswith an innovative chapter dealing with how sedimentology iscurrently informing a variety of cognate disciplines, from thetiming and extent tectonic uplift to variations in palaeoclimate.Each chapter concludes with a detailed guide to key further readingleading to a large bibliography of over 2500 entries. The book isdesigned to reach an audience of senior undergraduate and graduatestudents and interested academic and industry professionals.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 2. Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 796
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 189mm x 42mm
• Gewicht: 1674g
• ISBN-13: 9781405177832
• ISBN-10: 1405177837
• Artikelnr.: 31187423

Autorenporträt

Mike Leeder is Professor Emeritus at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, England. A geologist by training, at the University of Durham, he has researched and taught sedimentology since 1969, beginning as a graduate student at the Sedimentological Research Laboratory, University of Reading under the legendary Perce Allen and as faculty member at the Universities of Leeds and East Anglia. He is particularly interested in sedimentological fluid dynamics, basin analysis and the links between sedimentary processes and climate change.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Making Sediment Chapter 1 Clastic sediment as chemical and physical
breakdown products Chapter 2 Carbonate, siliceous, iron-rich and evaporite
sediments Chapter 3 Sediment grain properties Part 2 Moving fluid Chapter 4
Fluid basics Chapter 5 Types of Fluid Motion Part 3 Transporting sediment
Chapter 6 Sediment in fluid and fluid flow - general Chapter 7 Bedforms and
sedimentary structures in flows and under waves Chapter 8 Sediment gravity
flows and their deposits Chapter 9 Liquefaction, fluidisation and sliding
sediment deformation Part 4 Major external controls on sedimentation and
sedimentary environments Chapter 10 Major External Controls on
Sedimentation Part 5 Continental Sedimentary Environments Chapter 11 Rivers
Chapter 12 Subaerial fans: alluvial and colluvial Chapter 13Aeolian
sediments in low-latitude deserts Chapter 14 Lakes Chapter 15 Ice Part 6
Marine Sedimentary Environments Chapter 16 Estuaries Chapter 17 River and
fan deltas Chapter 18 Linear clastic shorelines Chapter 19 Shelves Chapter
20 Calcium carbonate-evaporite shorelines, shelves and basins Chapter 21
Deep ocean Part 7 Sedimentary Architecture of Sedimentary basins Chapter 22
Sediment in sedimentary basins: a user's guide Part 8 Topics: Sediment
solutions to interdisciplinary problems Chapter 23 Sediments solve wider
interdisciplinary problems

Rezensionen

"The book is designed to reach an audience of senior undergraduate and graduate students and interested academic and industry professionals." -- Solid Waste & Recycling, 8 March 2011