Mar 04, 2015 nichols sedimentology and stratigraphy 1. Sedimentary rocks include sandstones, limestones and mudstones. This book is a comprehensive introductory text on the physical aspects of geology, including rocks and minerals, plate tectonics, earthquakes, volcanoes, glaciation, groundwater, streams, coasts, mass wasting, climate change, planetary geology, etc. The international leader in its field, sedimentology publishes groundbreaking research from across the spectrum of sedimentology, sedimentary geology and sedimentary geochemistry.
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Apr 30, 20 gary nichols teaches sedimentology and stratigraphy at royal holloway university of london, uk, and has also recently taught courses at the university centre on svalbard, norway. This fully revised and updated edition introduces the reader to sedimentology and stratigraphic principles, and provides tools for the interpretation of sediments and sedimentary. Sedimentology is the study of sediment grains in marine and other deposits, with a focus on physical properties and the processes which form a deposit. Yet geology must remain an ancillary subject to students of engineering and it is therefore essential that. The science concerned with the description, classification, origin, and interpretation of sediments and sedimentary rock explanation of sedimentologist. A set of thematic volumes edited by specialists on subjects of central interest to sedimentologists. Sedimentology and stratigraphy american association of. This fully revised and updated edition introduces the reader to sedimentology and stratigraphic principles, and provides tools for the. Sedimentologist article about sedimentologist by the. Sedimentology and stratigraphy, 2nd edition welcome to the companion resources website for the second edition of sedimentology and stratigraphy by gary nichols.
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