Leeder Sedimentology and Sedimentary Basins

From Turbulence to Tectonics
2. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4443-4836-1
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 784 Seiten, E-Book

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Leeder, Mike R.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface, xi
Acknowledgements, xiii
Part 1: Making Sediment
Introduction, 1
1 Clastic sediment as a chemical and physical breakdown product,3
2 Carbonate, siliceous, iron-rich and evaporate sediments,27
3 Sediment grain properties, 57
Part 2: Moving Fluid
4 Fluid basics, 69
5 Types of fluid motion, 84
Part 3: Transporting Sediment
6 Sediment in fluid and fluid flow--general, 113
7 Bedforms and sedimentary structures in flows and under waves,132
8 Sediment gravity flows and their deposits, 171
9 Liquefaction, fluidization and sliding sediment deformation,198
Part 4: Major External Controls on Sedimentation andSedimentary Environments
10 Major external controls on sedimentation, 213
Part 5: Continental Sedimentary Environments
11 Rivers, 245
12 Subaerial Fans: Alluvial and Colluvial, 282
13 Aeolian Sediments in Low-Latitude Deserts, 295
14 Lakes, 319
15 Ice, 344
Part 6: Marine Sedimentary Environments
16 Estuaries, 371
17 River and Fan Deltas, 386
18 Linear Siliciclastic Shorelines, 417
19 Siliciclastic Shelves
20 Calcium-carbonate-evaporite Shorelines,
21 Deep Ocean, 514
Part 7: Architecture of Sedimentary Basins
22 Sediment in Sedimentary Basins: A User's Guide, 563
Part 8: Topics: Sediment Solutions to InterdisciplinaryProblems
23 Sediments Solve Wider Interdisciplinary
Cookies, 646
Maths Appendix, 697
References, 702
Index, 753
Colour plates fall between pp. 402 and 403

Über Autor(innen)

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.