| Description |
xxx, 821 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm. |
| Series |
Kluwer Academic encyclopedia of earth sciences series
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Kluwer Academic encyclopedia of earth sciences series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Algal and bacterial carbonate sediments / Robert Riding -- Allophane and imogolite / Roger L. Parfitt -- Aluvial fans / Adrian M. Harvey -- Anabranching rivers / Gerald C. Nanson, Martin R. Gibling -- Ancient Karst / Brian Jones -- Angle of repose / Paul D. Komar -- Anhydrite / James P. Hendry -- Armor / Rob Ferguson -- Atterberg limits / Michael J. Bovis-- Attrition, fluvial / Michael Church -- Attrition / Hillert Ibbeken -- Authigenesis / James R. Boles -- Autosuspension / Henry M. Pantin -- Avalanche and rock fall / Michael J. Bovis -- Avulsion / Norman D. Smith -- Bacteria in sediments / Nora Noffke -- Ball-and-pillow structure / Geraint Owen -- Bar, Littoral / Brian Greenwood -- Barrier islands / Duncan M. Fitzgerald and Ilya V. Buynevich -- Bauxite / Ray L. Frost -- Beachrook / Eberhard Gischler -- Bedding and internal structures -- Franco Ricci-Lucchi and Alessandro Amorosi -- Bedset and laminaset / John S. Bridge -- Bentonites and tonsteins / D. Alan Spears -- Berthierine / Fred J. Longstaffe -- Bioclasts / Paul Enos -- Bioerosion / Markus Bertling -- Biogenic Sedimentary structures / S. George Pemberton -- Black Shales / Juergen Schieber -- Braided channels / Peter Ashmore -- Calcite compensation depth / Sherwood Wise -- Caliche - Calcrete / V. Paul Wright -- Carbonate diagenesis and microfabrics / Robin G. C. Bathurst -- Carbonate mineralogy and geochemistry / Fred T. Mackenzie -- Carbonate mud-mounds / Pierre-Andre Bourque -- Cathodoluminescence / Stuart D. Burley -- Cation exchange / Balwant Singh -- Cave Sidiments / Brian Jones -- Cements and cementation / Pater A. Scholle and Dana Ilmer-Scholle -- Chalk / Ida L. Fabricius -- Charcoal in sediments / Andrew C. Scott -- Chlorite in sediments / Stephen Hillier -- Classification of sediments and sedimentary rocks / Gerald M. Friedman -- Clastic dykes and sill / A. Demoulin -- Clathrates / Miriam Kastner -- Clay Mineralogy / Stephen Hillier -- Climatic control of sedimentation / Greg H. Mack -- Coal Balls / Andrew C. Scott -- Coastal sedimentary facies / H. Edward Clifton -- Colloidal properties of sediments / Sandip and devamita chattopadhyay -- Colors of sedimentary rocks / Paul Myrow -- Compaction of sediments / Knut Bjorlykke -- Convolute lamination / Gerald V. Middleton -- Coring methods / Arnold H. Bouma -- Cross-stratification / David M. Rubin -- Cyclic Sedimentation / Robert K. Goldhammer -- Debris flow / Jon J. Mayor -- Dedolomitization / Mario Coniglio -- Deformation of sediments / John D. Collinson -- Deformation structures and growth faults / John D. Collinson -- Deltas and estuaries / Janok Bhattacharya -- Depositional fabric of mudstones / Juergen Schieber -- Desert sedimentary environments / Joseph P. Smoot -- Desiccation structures / P. W. Geoff Tanner -- Diagenesis / Kitty L. Milliken -- Diagenetic structures / Peter Mozley -- Diffusion, chemical / Bernard P. Boudreau -- Diffusion, turbulent / Andrew J. Hogg -- Dish structure / Zoltan Sylvester and Donald R. Lowe -- Dolomites and dolomitization / Hans G. Machel -- Dunes, Eolian / Nicholas Lancaster -- Earth flows / Rex L. Baum -- Encrinites / William I. Ausich -- Eolian transport and deposition / Cheryl McKenna Neuman -- Erosion and sidiment yield / Robert R. Stallard -- Evaporites / Lawrence A. Hardie and Tim K. Lowenstein -- Extraterrestrial material in sediments / Christian Koeberl -- Fabric, Porosity and permeability / Gerard V. Middleton -- Facies models / Harold G. Reading -- Fan delta / George Pastma -- Features indicating impact and shock metamorphism / Wolf Uwe Reimold -- Feldspars in sedimentary rocks / Sadoon Marad -- Flame structure / Gerard V. Middleton -- Flaser / Burghard W. Flemming -- Flocculation / Morten Pejrup -- Floodplain sediment / Andres Aslan -- Floods and other catastrophic events / Victor R. Baker -- Flow resistance / Robert Millar -- Fluid escape structures / Zoltan Sylvester and Donald R. Lowe -- Fluid inclusions / Robert H. Goldstein -- Flume / Basil Gomez -- Forensic sedimentology / Raymond C. Murray -- Gasses in sediments / Chris J. Clayton -- Geodes / Kitty L. Milliken -- Geophysical properties of sediments / Anthony L. Endres -- Geothermic characteristics of sediments and sedimentary rocks / Daniel F. Merriam -- Glacial sediments: Processes, enviroments and facies / Michael J. Hambrey and Neil F. Glasser -- Glaucony and verdine / Alessandro Amorosi -- Grading, graded bedding / Richard N. Hiscott -- Grain flow / Charles S. Campbell -- Grain settling / Paul D. Komar -- Grain size and shape / Michael J. Church -- Grain threshold / Paul D. Komar -- Gravity - driven mass flows / Richard M. Iverson -- Gutters and gutter casts / Paul Myrow -- Heavy mineral shadows / Rick Cheel -- Heavy minerals / Andrew C. Morton -- Hindered settling / Jon J. Major -- Humic substances in sediments / Laura J. Crossey -- Hummocky and swaley cross - stratification / Rick Cheel -- Hydrocarbons in sediments / Martin Fowler -- Hydroxides and oxyhydroxide minerals / Helge Stanjek -- Illite group clay minerals / Jan Srodon -- Imbrication and flow - oriented clasts / Cyril Galvin -- Impregnation / Scott F. Lamoureux -- Iron - manganese nodules / Stephen E. Calvert -- Ironstones and iron formations / Bruce M. Simonson -- Isotopic methods in sedimentology / Fred J. Longstaffe -- Kaolin group minerals / Rossman F. Giese Jr. -- Kerogen / Raphael A.J. Wust and R. Marc Bustin -- Lacustrine Sedimentation / Robert Gilbert -- Laterites / Yves Tardy -- Lepispheres / Sherwood W. Wise Jr. -- Liquefaction and fluidization / Charles S. Campbell -- Load structures / John R. L. Allen -- Lunar Sediments / Abhijit Basu -- Magadiite / Robin W. Renaut -- Magnetic properties of sediments / Mark J. Dekkers -- Mass movement / Michael J. Bovis -- Maturation, organic / R. Marc Bustin and Raphael A. J. Wust -- Maturity: textural and compositional / Raymond V. Ingersoll -- Meandering channels / Edward J. Hickin -- Melange; Melange / John W. F. Waldron -- Micritization / Ian G. MacIntyre and R. Pamela Reid -- Microbially induced sedimentary structures / Nora Noffke -- Milankovitch cycles / Linda Hinnov -- Mixed Siliciclastic and carbonate sedimentation / Robert K. Goldhammer -- Mixed-layer clays / Jan Srodon -- Mixing models / Bernard P. Boudreau -- Mudrocks / Paul E. Potter -- Neomorphism and recrystallization / J. A. D. Dickson -- Nepheloid layer, sediment / I. Nicholas McCave -- Neritic carbonate depositional environments / Noel P. James -- Numerical models and simulation of sediment transport and deposition / Rudy L. Slingerland -- Oceanic sediments / Robert G. Douglass -- Offshore sands / Serge Berne -- Oil sands / Daryl M. Wightman -- Oolite and coated grains / Fredrick D. Siewers -- Ophicalcites / Denis Lavoie -- Paleocurrent analysis / Andrew D. Miall -- Parting Lineations and current crescents / Rick Cheel -- Peat / Barry G. Warner -- Petrophysics of sand and sandstone / Robert Ehrlich -- Phosphorites / Craig R. Glenn and Robert E. Garrison -- Physics of sediment transport: the contributions of R. Z. Bagnold / Colin R. Thorne -- Pillar structure / Zoltan Sylvestor and Donald R. Lowe -- Placers, fluvial / W. K. Fletcher -- Placers, marine / David S. Cronan -- Planar and parallel lamination / John S. Bridge -- Porewaters in sediments / Jeffrey S. Hanor -- Pressure solution / Francois Renard and Dag Dysthe -- Provenance / Abhijit Basu -- Pseudonodules / Geraint Owen -- Quartz, Detrial / Harvey Blatt -- Red beds / Peter Turner -- Reefs / Wolfgang Kiessling -- Relict and palimpsest sediments / Donald J. P. Swift -- Relief peels / Robert W. Dalrymple -- Resin and amber in sediments / Ken B. Anderson -- Ripple, ripple mark, ripple structure / Jaco H. Baas -- Rivers and alluvial fans / Gerald C. Nanson and Martin R. Gibling -- Sabkha, salt flat, salina / Lawrence A. Hardie -- Salt marshes / Daniel F. Belknap -- Sands, gravels, and their lithified equivalents / Andrew D. Miall -- Sapropel / Stephen E. Calvert -- Scour, scour marks / John R. L. Allen -- Seawater: temporal changes in the major solutes / H. Wayne Nesbitt -- Sediment fluxes and rates of sedimentation / James P. M. Syvitski -- Sediment transport by tides / Robert W. Dalrymple and Kyungsik Choi -- Sediment transport by unidirectional water flows / John S. Bridge -- Sediment transportation by waves / Brian Greenwood -- Sedimentary geology / Gerard V. Middleton -- Sedimentary structures as way-up indicators / Robert H. Dott Jr. -- Sedimentology, history / Gerard V. Middleton -- Sedimentology: history in Japan / Hakuyu Okada -- Sedimentology-organizations, meetings, publications / Gail M. Ashley -- Sediments produced by impact / Christian Koeberl -- Septarian concretions / Mark W. Hounslow -- Silcrete / M. Angeles Bustillo -- Siliceous sediments / L. Paul Knauth -- Slide and slump structures / Ole J. Martinsen -- Slope sediments / Richard N. Hiscott -- Slurry / Jon J. Major -- Smectite group / Stephen P. Altaner -- Solution breccias / Derek Ford -- Speleothems / Derek Ford -- Spiculites and spongolites / Paul R. Gammon -- Stains for carbonate minerals / J. A. D. Dickson -- Statistical analysis of sediments and sedimentary rocks / Daniel F. Merriam -- Storm deposits / Paul Myrow -- Stromatactis / Pierre-Andre Bourque -- Stromatolites / Brian R. Pratt -- |
| Subject |
Sediments (Geology) -- Encyclopedias.
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Sediments (Geology) |
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Encyclopedias.
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| Subject |
Sedimentary rocks -- Encyclopedias.
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Sedimentary rocks. |
| Genre/Form |
Encyclopedias.
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| Added Author |
Middleton, Gerard V.
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| Added Title |
Encyclopedia of sediments and sedimentary rocks |
| ISBN |
1402008724 acid-free paper |
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