Sedimentology and Sedimentary Basins - From Turbulence to Tectonics

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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.The 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. Zusammenfassung 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.The 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1 Making SedimentChapter 1 Clastic sediment as chemical and physical breakdown productsChapter 2 Carbonate, siliceous, iron-rich and evaporite sedimentsChapter 3 Sediment grain propertiesPart 2 Moving fluidChapter 4 Fluid basicsChapter 5 Types of Fluid MotionPart 3 Transporting sedimentChapter 6 Sediment in fluid and fluid flow - generalChapter 7 Bedforms and sedimentary structures in flows and under wavesChapter 8 Sediment gravity flows and their depositsChapter 9 Liquefaction, fluidisation and sliding sediment deformationPart 4 Major external controls on sedimentation and sedimentary environmentsChapter 10 Major External Controls on SedimentationPart 5 Continental Sedimentary EnvironmentsChapter 11 RiversChapter 12 Subaerial fans: alluvial and colluvialChapter 13Aeolian sediments in low-latitude desertsChapter 14 LakesChapter 15 IcePart 6 Marine Sedimentary Enviro...

List of contents

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

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"For them, I cannot recommend it too highly, this being alifetime of scholarly endeavour encapsulated in one volume. Itwill, I am sure, be a standard reference for years tocome." ( Geology Today , 1 May 2011)
"The book is designed to reach an audience of senior undergraduateand graduate students and interested academic and industryprofessionals." (Solid Waste & Recycling, 8 March 2011)

Product details

• Authors: Mike R. Leeder, Leeder Mike R.
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.01.2011
• EAN: 9781405177832
• ISBN: 978-1-4051-7783-2
• No. of pages: 784
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences; Geowissenschaften, Sedimentologie, Earth Sciences, Sedimentology & Stratigraphy, Sedimentologie u. Stratigraphie