Sedimentology and Sedimentary Basins: From Turbulence to Tectonics

by Mike R. Leeder (University of East Anglia)

• ISBN13: 9781444311402
• ISBN10: 1444311409
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2009-04-01
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Sedimentology is a core discipline of earth and environmental sciences. It enquires the origins, transport and deposition of mineral sediment on the Earth's surface. The subject is a link between positive effects arising from the building of relief by tectonics and the negative action of denudation in drainage catchments and tectonic subsidence in sedimentary basins.The author addresses the principles of the subject, emphasising the advantages of a general science approach and the importance of understanding modern processes. Sedimentology and Sedimentary Basins is not an encyclopaedia, but attempts to stimulate interdisciplinary thought across the whole subject area and related disciplines. The book has been designed to meet the needs of earth and environmental science undergraduates.Mike Leeder is currently at the School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich. Previously, he was at the School of Earth Sciences, University of Leeds. Mike believes that the first step in sedimentological problem-solving comes from field observations, the second step comes from a grasp of basic physics or chemistry, and the third step comes from the application of simple mathematics. The second edition of a well-established and very successful text. A core course in all earth science degree programmes. Features colour plates and boxed explanations of difficult derivations.

Table of Contents

Introduction:

Sedimentology In The Earth Sciences

Origin And Types Of Sediment Grains:

Water-Rock Interactions - Chemical And Physical Breakdown Of Catchment Bedrock To Clastic Sediment Grains

The Inorganic And Organic Precipitation Of Sediment: Chemical, Biochemical And Biological

Users Guide To Sedimentological Fluid Dynamics:

Back To Basics: Fluid Flow In General

Flow In The Real World - Laminar And Turbulent Behaviour

Sediment Grains In Fluids - Settling, Transport And Feedback

Sediment Transport And Sedimentary Structures:

Bedforms And Structures Formed By Unidirectional Water Flows Over Granular Sediment

Bedforms And Structures Formed By Atmospheric Flows

Oscillatory Water Waves, Combined Flows And Tides: Their Bedforms And Structures

Bedforms And Cohesive Sediment Transport And Erosion

Sediment Gravity Flows And Their Deposits

Liquification

Liquification Structures And Other 'Soft' Sediment Deformation Structures

External Controls On Sediment Derivation, Transport And Deposition:

Climate And Sedimentary Processes

Changing Sea Level And Sedimentary Sequences

Tectonics, Denudation Rates And Sediment Yields

Sediment Deposition, Environments And Facies In Continental Environments:

Aeolian Sediments In Low-Latitude Deserts

Rivers

Alluvial Fans And Fan Deltas

Lakes

Ice

Sediment Deposition, Environments And Facies In Marine Environments:

Estuaries

Deltas

'Linear' Clastic Shorelines

Carbonate-Evaporite Shorelines, Shelves And Basins

Shelves; Oceanic Processes And Sediments

Sedimentology In Sedimentary Basins:

Tectonic Subsidence And Deposition

Sedimentology In Sedimentary Basins

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