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Sedimentology and Sedimentary Basins

From Turbulence to Tectonics

Leeder, Mike R.

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2. Edition January 2011
784 Pages, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd

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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.

ISBN: 978-1-4051-7783-2
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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.

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
"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." (Geology Today, 1 May 2011) "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)
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.

M. R. Leeder, University of East Anglia, UK