This completely revised and enlarged second edition provides an up-to-date overview of all major topics in sedimentary geology. It is unique in its quantitative approach to denudation-accumulation systems and basin fillings, including dynamic aspects. The relationship between tectonism and basin evolution as well as the concepts of sequence cycle and event stratigraphy in various depositional environments are extensively discussed. Numerous, often composite figures, a well-structured text, brief summaries in boxes, and several examples from all continents make the book an invaluable source of information for students, researchers and professors in academia as well as for professionals in the oil industry.
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"The book is tightly written with a considerable wealth of data and a very extensive set of references. An excellent sourcebook and major resource for studies in sedimentology and stratigraphy. Undergraduate; graduate; faculty; professional." Choice
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I'm a student who currently taking Geological class, bought this book, and found that this book is that I needed to add my knowledge in Sedimentary Basins. It has good structure, from basic to advance topic and a lot of depositional environment and basin structure illustration. A good additional text book for those who learn sedimentary basin and basin analysis.
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Sedimentary basins are, in a very broad sense, all those areas in which sediments can accumulate to considerable thickness and be preserved for long geological time periods. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
retroarc basins, gravity mass movements, expelled pore water, mean denudation rate, meteoric water circulation, continental extrusion, thermobaric flow, dissolved river load, suspended river load, biosiliceous sediments, mechanical denudation rate, compaction flow, lateral facies associations, mixed rock types, mud tempestites, specific transport rates, overlying water body, remnant basins, perialpine lakes, meteoric flow, many special articles, prodelta foresets, sag basins, separated inflow, bonate buildups Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Red Sea, North Sea, Black Sea, North America, Gulf of California, Dead Sea, Caspian Sea, Gulf of Mexico, East African, South America, Gulf of Aden, South Atlantic, Lake Turkana, Mediterranean Sea, Persian Gulf, Aegean Sea, Baltic Sea, Grand Banks, North Africa, Rio Grande, High Atlas, New Zealand, Western Interior, Aral Sea, Gulf Stream New!
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Sedimentary basins are, in a very broad sense, all those areas in which sediments can accumulate to considerable thickness and be preserved for long geological time periods. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
retroarc basins, gravity mass movements, expelled pore water, mean denudation rate, meteoric water circulation, continental extrusion, thermobaric flow, dissolved river load, suspended river load, biosiliceous sediments, mechanical denudation rate, compaction flow, lateral facies associations, mixed rock types, mud tempestites, specific transport rates, overlying water body, remnant basins, perialpine lakes, meteoric flow, many special articles, prodelta foresets, sag basins, separated inflow, bonate buildups Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Red Sea, North Sea, Black Sea, North America, Gulf of California, Dead Sea, Caspian Sea, Gulf of Mexico, East African, South America, Gulf of Aden, South Atlantic, Lake Turkana, Mediterranean Sea, Persian Gulf, Aegean Sea, Baltic Sea, Grand Banks, North Africa, Rio Grande, High Atlas, New Zealand, Western Interior, Aral Sea, Gulf Stream New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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