This book, first published in 1985, is a dramatic revision of Dr. Allen's earlier book. Completely restructured, more comprehensive and more concerned with fundamental physical principles. It is intended for the senior undergraduate and beginning postgraduate student in Earth Science. It covers general physic in order to understand the small scale mechanically formed features of detrital sediments. "The coverage is very thorough and the ideas are presented in a lively text written in an interrogative style which constantly poses questions to the reader and suggests lines of enquiry. The text is widely illustrated. Highlights include the exceptionally thorough introduction to the basic physical principles of sedimentation and the lively and varied accounts of flow in meandering channels and turbulence." Terra Cognita "I was unable to read more than a few pages without encountering some new and stimulating idea. Does not resemble any other sedimentology textbook. The great strength of this book, as of much of Allen's other work, is in applying physical reasoning and simplified mathematical modelling to sedimentologic problems. Allen here reminds me of Bagnold: Both have performed highly original and seminal analyses." Sedimentology
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I was unable to read more than a few pages without encountering some new and stimulating idea. -- Sedimentology
The coverage is very thorough and the ideas are presented in a lively text written in an interrogative style -- Terra cognita
The coverage is very thorough and the ideas are presented in a lively text written in an interrogative style -- Terra cognita
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An absolute must for anyone studying sedimentology at the graduate level. Although the most recent printing is not a new edition (simply a reprint of the 1985 edition), this text is still close to the state of the art in physical sedimentology. Don't expect to find brilliant prose -- this is a technical text, after all -- but the quantitative and qualitative descriptions of sediment processes are lucid. Illustrations and diagrams are basic and could be improved, but Allen's text remains at the least a valuable reference.
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Taking a commonsense view, the world we live in is composed of quantities of matter which influence each other physically in a variety of ways, depending on the nature of the matter, on whether the lumps are in relative motion and on the nature of their motion. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
corkscrew vortices, unit transport rate, ballistic ripples, grain transport velocity, haphazard packing, fractional volume concentration, fluid stripping, bursting streaks, quadratic stress law, terminal fall velocity, mean boundary shear stress, streamwise plane, water particle orbits, virtual bottom, unit bed area, vortex ripples, downslope length, streak bursting, convolute lamination, cohesionless sediments, channel centreline, immersed weight, clay mineral species, net sediment transport, net transport rate Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Fluid Mech, Severn Estuary, Engng Geol, Mississippi River, New York, Marine Geol, Bredon Hill, Cambridge University Press, Academic Press, Readings Allen, South Nation River, Earth Sci, Earth Surf, Data of Allen, London Clay, North Sea, Marlstone Rock Bed, River South Esk, South Wales, Thames Estuary, Under the International System of Units, University College of Swansea, Englewood Cliffs, Geological Society of London, Hispaniola-Caicos Basin New!
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Taking a commonsense view, the world we live in is composed of quantities of matter which influence each other physically in a variety of ways, depending on the nature of the matter, on whether the lumps are in relative motion and on the nature of their motion. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
corkscrew vortices, unit transport rate, ballistic ripples, grain transport velocity, haphazard packing, fractional volume concentration, fluid stripping, bursting streaks, quadratic stress law, terminal fall velocity, mean boundary shear stress, streamwise plane, water particle orbits, virtual bottom, unit bed area, vortex ripples, downslope length, streak bursting, convolute lamination, cohesionless sediments, channel centreline, immersed weight, clay mineral species, net sediment transport, net transport rate Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Fluid Mech, Severn Estuary, Engng Geol, Mississippi River, New York, Marine Geol, Bredon Hill, Cambridge University Press, Academic Press, Readings Allen, South Nation River, Earth Sci, Earth Surf, Data of Allen, London Clay, North Sea, Marlstone Rock Bed, River South Esk, South Wales, Thames Estuary, Under the International System of Units, University College of Swansea, Englewood Cliffs, Geological Society of London, Hispaniola-Caicos Basin New!
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