Description
Book Synopsis* Rapid coverage of the most recent developments in sedimentology for students, researchers and professional geologists in industry. * Edited by a board of experts in their respective fields. * High quality, accessible information from international authorities. * Generously illustrated. .
Table of ContentsPreface.
Balmy shores and icy wastes: the paradox of carbonates associated with glacial deposits in Neoproterozoic times.
Cretaceous climates.
The recognition and stratigraphic implications of orbital-forcing of climate and sedimentary cycles.
Carbonate diagenesis and sequence stratigraphy.
Rudist formations of the Cretaceous: a palaeoecological, sedimentological and stratigraphical review.
Oxygen-related mudrock biofacies.
Hummocky cross-stratification.
An introduction to estuarine lithosomes and their controls
