At head of title: For Francis Pettijohn, teacher and geologist.
Essays first read at a conference at Johns Hopkins University in January 1971.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographies.
Contents
R. G. Walker. Mopping up the turbidite mess.--H. P. Eugster. Experimental geochemistry and the sedimentary environment: Van't Hoff's study of marine evaporites.--K. J. Hsü. The odyssey of geosyncline.--E. F. McBride. Concepts of Appalachian Basin sedimentation.--R. L. Folk. Carbonate petrography in the post-Sorbian age.--A. Seilacher. Biostratinomy: the sedimentology of biologically standardized particles.--P. Hoffman. Recent and ancient algal stromatolites: seventy years of pedagogic cross-pollination.