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Contents

Preface, ix 4 PROCESSES OF TRANSPORT
AND SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURES, 44
Acknowledgements, xi 4.1 Transport media, 44
4.2 The behaviour of fluids and particles
1 INTRODUCTION: SEDIMENTOLOGY in fluids, 45
AND STRATIGRAPHY, 1 4.3 Flows, sediment and bedforms, 50
1.1 Sedimentary processes, 1 4.4 Waves, 58
1.2 Sedimentary environments and facies, 2 4.5 Mass flows, 60
1.3 The spectrum of environments and facies, 3 4.6 Mudcracks, 64
1.4 Stratigraphy, 3 4.7 Erosional sedimentary structures, 65
1.5 The structure of this book, 4 4.8 Terminology for sedimentary structures
Further reading, 4 and beds, 66
4.9 Sedimentary structures and sedimentary
2 TERRIGENOUS environments, 68
CLASTIC SEDIMENTS: GRAVEL, Further reading, 68
SAND AND MUD, 5
2.1 Classification of sediments and sedimentary 5 FIELD SEDIMENTOLOGY, FACIES
rocks, 5 AND ENVIRONMENTS, 69
2.2 Gravel and conglomerate, 7 5.1 Field sedimentology, 69
2.3 Sand and sandstone, 10 5.2 Graphic sedimentary logs, 70
2.4 Clay, silt and mudrock, 21 5.3 Palaeocurrents, 75
2.5 Textures and analysis of terrigenous clastic 5.4 Collection of rock samples, 78
sedimentary rocks, 23 5.5 Description of core, 79
2.6 Terrigenous clastic sediments: summary, 27 5.6 Interpreting past depositional
Further reading, 27 environments, 80
5.7 Reconstructing palaeoenvironments in space
3 BIOGENIC, CHEMICAL AND and time, 84
VOLCANOGENIC SEDIMENTS, 28 5.8 Summary: facies and environments, 85
3.1 Limestone, 28 Further reading, 86
3.2 Evaporite minerals, 36
3.3 Cherts, 38 6 CONTINENTS: SOURCES OF
3.4 Sedimentary phosphates, 38 SEDIMENT, 87
3.5 Sedimentary ironstone, 38 6.1 From source of sediment to formation
3.6 Carbonaceous (organic) deposits, 40 of strata, 87
3.7 Volcaniclastic sedimentary rocks, 41 6.2 Mountain-building processes, 88
Further reading, 43 6.3 Global climate, 88