Sedimentology and Sedimentary Basins: From Turbulence to Tectonics - Couverture rigide

Leeder, Mike R.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1444349929 ISBN 13 : 9781444349924

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd), 2011

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Présentation de l'éditeur :

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.

Biographie de l'auteur :

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.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1444349929
• ISBN 13: 9781444349924
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 784