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Record Nr.

UNISA996198285703316

Titolo

Sedimentology review/1 / / edited by V. Paul Wright

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, [England] : , : Blackwell Scientific Publications, , 1993

©1993

ISBN

1-282-17196-8

9786612171963

1-4443-0453-4

1-4443-0454-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (154 p.)

Collana

International Association Of Sedimentologists Series ; ; v.1

Disciplina

551.3

551.3005

552.5072

Soggetti

Sedimentology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Sedimentology Review/1; Contents; List of contributors; Preface; 1 Balmy shores and icy wastes: the paradox of carbonates associated with glacial deposits in Neoproterozoic times; 2 Cretaceous climates; 3 The recognition and stratigraphic implications of orbital-forcing of climate and sedimentary cycles; 4 Carbonate diagenesis and sequence stratigraphy; 5 Rudist formations of the Cretaceous: a palaeoecological, sedimentological and stratigraphical review; 6 Oxygen-related mudrock biofacies; 7 Hummocky cross-stratification; 8 An introduction to estuarine lithosomes and their controls; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Sedimentology Review is a new series of books edited by the Postgraduate Research Institute of Sedimentology (PRIS) and published by Blackwell Scientific Publications. The series provides the practicing sedimentologist with a means of rapidly accessing new developments in sedimentology. Existing textbooks date rapidly and new journals continuously become available, making it difficult to remain current in all aspects of the subject. The series provides high quality reviews written in an accessible format, on a wide variety of topics in



sedimentology-sedimentary geology. The series will