Sreepat Jain

Fundamentals of Sedimentology (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This new textbook is a modern look at key concepts of sedimentology. With lavish, colorful, and abundant illustrations and easy-to-understand explanations, the book focuses on the concepts required to understand physical, chemical, and biological characteristics of sedimentary rocks and the processes involved in their formation. This includes the transportation, deposition, and transformation of sediments. It also emphasizes how the understanding of sedimentary rocks can be used to interpret all continental, marginal marine, and deep-water oceanic environments. Written with undergraduate-level students in mind, it serves as a primary textbook for the new generation of students.

Features

• Fully up-to-date coverage, using the latest studies in the field of sedimentology.
• Many colorful illustrations to facilitate the understanding of key concepts.
• Explanations that are jargon-free and easy to understand for the undergraduate-level reader.
• Examples to interpret ancient environmental conditions in sediment source areas and depositional sites

Written by an experienced researcher and academic who has taught the course at different universities and countries for over 20 years, Fundamentals of Sedimentology is an excellent resource for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students studying Geology, Geomorphology, Physical Geology, and Geography, and it serves as a great reference for entry-level researchers who work in the same fields.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 502
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040269299
• Artikelnr.: 72296153

Autorenporträt

Sreepat Jain is a Professor at the Department of Applied Geology, Adama Science and Technology University, Adama, Ethiopia, with 22 years of teaching and over two and a half decades of research experience. Prof. Jain holds two doctorates, one from India and the other from the United States. He was awarded the TA Excellence in Teaching in the United States and also the prestigious Prof. S. K. Singh Memorial Gold Medal from the Palaeontological Society of India for best research paper. He has published several research articles in national and international peer-reviewed journals and has authored three books. He also serves as a reviewer for several international geoscience journals.

Inhaltsangabe

Section I. Basic Concepts. 1. Weathering and soils. 2. Sediment properties.
3. Sediment transport mechanisms. Section II. Sedimentary Structures and
their Environment of Deposition. 4. Sedimentary structures. Section III.
Composition and Classification of Sedimentary Rocks. 5. Siliciclastic
sedimentary rocks. 6. Carbonate rocks. 7. Chemical/biochemical and
carbonaceous sedimentary rocks. Section IVa. Depositional Systems:
Continental Environments. 8. Fluvial system. 9. River system. 10.
Lacustrine system. 11. Eolian system. 12. Glacial system. Section IVb.
Depositional Systems: Marginal Marine Environments. 13. Deltaic system. 14.
Beach and barrier-island system. 15. Estuarine system. 16. Lagoonal system.
17. Tidal-flat system. Section IVc. Depositional Systems: Siliciclastic
Marine and Pelagic Environments. 18. Shelf environment. 19. Oceanic
(deep-water) environment. Section IVd. Depositional Systems: Carbonate
Shelf Environments. 20. Carbonate depositional environment. 21. Organic
reef environment.