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Acknowledgements

A book of this type would have been impossible without years of cooperative
field observation and exchange of ideas with many persons. For these opportunities
the author wishes to thank the management of Shell Development and Shell
Oil Companies, Shell International Research, and particularly the many fine
geologists of these companies who provided stimulating discussion at so many
different times and places.
The author is also grateful to the National Science Foundation which, through
Grant Number GA10147, made possible the initiation of this compilation, and
to William Marsh Rice University for providing facilities for carrying on the
research with excellent graduate students and for providing a sabbatical year.
The author would also like to thank Professor Richard Dehm and
Dr. Ludwig Happel of the Institutes of Paleontology and General and Applied
Geology of the University of Munich for their hospitality during a pleasant
year in which much of the writing was accomplished. This was also made
possible through a Fulbright-Hayes research fellowship in 1972-1973.
Many persons contributed specifically to the completion of the book.
Dr. R.N. Ginsburg and Paul Potter looked at introductory Chapters and gave
initial encouragement. Dr. L.L.Sloss undertook the difficult task of reading and
criticizing most of the manuscript. C. Kendall, Alan Coogan, Ludwig Happel,
G.Shairer, B.H.Purser, and R.N. Ginsburg read and criticized particular Chapters.
Valuable suggestions were also made by three graduate students, Steve Schafers-
man, Edward Thornton, and John Van Wagoner who carefully read the intro-
ductory chapters. Schafersman also assisted with the photomicrography. Michael
Campbell helped compile a glossary of sedimentary structures.
Special acknowledgement is made to the American Association of Petroleum
Geologists and to the Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists
who permitted many illustrations from their journals to be republished.
Dr. R.N. Ginsburg of the Miami University Laboratory of Comparative Sedi-
mentology kindly furnished the author eight redrafted Figures by Dr. Bruce
H.Purser who gave permission for their inclusion in Chapter X. J.E.Klovan,
D.F. Toomey, M.Malek-Aslani, F.R.Allcorn, and C.Kendall assisted greatly by
furnishing some of the photomicrographs used on the plates.
The original manuscript editing was largely done by Martha Lou Broussard
and completed by Peggy Rainwater. The author is particularly grateful for their
conscientious efforts.
Much of the drafting was done by the author's sister, Mrs. Betty Mitchell
and the lettering by Michael Carr, John Van Wagoner, and the author's mother,
Mrs. J.Burney Wilson.