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Author(s): Collinson, John; Mountney, Nigel; Thompson, David
ISBN(s): 9781628703450, 1628703458
File Details: PDF, 17.27 MB
Year: 2006
Language: english
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ISBN 10:  190354419X

ISBN 13: 978-1903544198

Author:  John Collinson, Nigel Mountney, David Thompson

Thoroughly revised and with many new illustrations, this classic textbook in elementary sedimentology reaches its third edition 20 years after first publication. Particular attention has been paid to recent advances in the understanding of aeolian processes and bedforms, and in the interpretation of trace fossils. The introduction to environmental interpretation has also been developed to reflect recent advances in stratigraphic thinking. Sedimentary structures sets out a clear methodology and philosophy for understanding both present-day sediments and sedimentary rocks as the products of dynamic processes. The book introduces depositional and post-depositional sedimentary processes in an easily accessible way, and shows, across a wide range of scales, how sedimentary structures can be interpreted in terms of those processes. Sedimentary structures produced by erosion, deposition and post-depositional change are all clearly explained and related to the processes that formed them. Hydrodynamic and aerodynamic controls on the development of subaqueous and aeolian bedforms are discussed, as are the styles of deformation to which sediments can be subjected after deposition. Structures that characterize deposition caused by chemical and biologically influenced processes are explained and illustrated, along with the complex effects of chemical changes and of animal and plant activity in modifying sediments after they have been deposited. The book ends with an introduction to the methods and principles of environmental interpretation, for which it provides an invaluable basis. Sedimentary structures is designed for use in introductory courses in universities, colleges and schools. It continues to be enhanced by an abundance of fine illustrations and by its practical hands-on approach to the subject. This edition represents a major revision of the earlier editions, with several chapters mostly rewritten. Many of the illustrations are new and the reference lists have been up-dated and rationalized. As such, this third edition of Sedimentary structures will be warmly welcomed by all readers with interests in sedimentology.

Table of contents: 

1 Introduction

1.1 The nature of this book

1.2 The wider geological context

1.3 Sedimentary structures and science Study techniques

2 Bedding

2.1 The nature of bedding

2.2 The significance of bedding Study techniques

3 Basic properties of fluids, flows and sediment

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Properties of low-viscosity fluids and flows

3.3 Waves

3.4 Properties of sediments moved by flows

3.5 Erosion

3.6 Modes of sediment transport

3.7 Sediment gravity flows

3.8 Pyroclastic density currents Study techniques

4 Erosional structures

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Sole marks

4.3 Small-scale structures on modern and ancient upper surfaces

4.4 Erosional features in vertical section Study techniques

5 Depositional structures in muds, mudstones and shales

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Structures and lamination

Study techniques

6 Depositional structures of sands and sandstones

6.1 Ripples and cross lamination

6.2 Aqueous dunes, sandwaves, bars and cross bedding

6.3 Aeolian dunes and cross bedding

6.4 Flat beds and parallel lamination

6.5 Undulating smooth surfaces and lamination

6.6 Hummocky and swaley cross stratification

6.7 Massive sand and sandstone beds

6.8 Normally graded beds, inverse grading and the Bouma sequence

Study techniques

7 Depositional structures in gravels, conglomerates and breccias

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Problems of classification

7.3 Morphology and general settings of gravel deposition

7.4 Structures and other descriptive features:

mode of formation

7.5 Processes of formation of mass properties and structures

7.6 Uses of structures Study techniques

8 Depositional structures of chemical and biological origin

8.1 Introduction

8.2 Chemical precipitation

8.3 Precipitation and binding of sediment by organisms

8.4 Early cementation

8.5 Other bedding phenomena in limestones Study techniques

9 Structures created by deformation and disturbance

9.1 Introduction

9.2 Physically induced soft-sediment deformation

9.3 Chemically induced disturbance

9.4 Biogenic sedimentary structures: trace fossils Study techniques

10 Assemblages of structures and environmental interpretation

10.1 Introduction

10.2 Mapping of modern environments

10.3 Measurement of sections in rock sequences

10.4 Interpretation of vertical sequences in rocks

10.5 Key stratigraphical surfaces

10.6 Interpretation of lateral relationships in sedimentary rocks

Study techniques

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