This is an accessible introductory text for geology students, which encompasses both sedimentary rocks and stratigraphy. "Sedimentary Geology" utilizes important research in tectonics and sedimentation and focuses on crucial geological principles. The text covers a wide range of topics, including trace fossils, mudrocks, diagentetic structures and seismic stratigraphy. Contributions from chemistry, physics and structure are drawn upon throughout the book. The second edition brings the text right up to date and includes new sections on peri-glacial environments and the use of palesols new research covering recent thoughts about aragonite/calcite seas new developments in organodiagenetic dolomite models and perspective on the effect of drastic historical changes in the earth and findings on these changes in the sedimentary record.
- ISBN10 0716739054
- ISBN13 9780716739050
- Publish Date 1 August 2003 (first published 15 February 1996)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 14 March 2014
- Publish Country US
- Imprint W.H.Freeman & Co Ltd
- Edition 2nd Revised edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 600
- Language English
- URL http://whfreeman.com/college/Prothero/sedwebsites.htm