Preface | p. 6 |
Acknowledgments | p. 7 |
Overview | p. 8 |
About this book | p. 8 |
Classification of sedimentary rocks | p. 9 |
Economic studies | p. 10 |
Field Techniques | p. 12 |
Safety in the field | p. 12 |
Field equipment | p. 13 |
General approach and field notebook | p. 14 |
Basic measurements and data records | p. 14 |
Field sketches and logs | p. 18 |
Paleocurrent and paleoslope analysis | p. 23 |
Stratigraphic procedure and way-up criteria | p. 25 |
Other techniques | p. 27 |
Principal Characteristics of Sedimentary Rocks | p. 28 |
Introduction and facies concept | p. 28 |
Bedding and lamination | p. 29 |
Field photographs | p. 31 |
Erosional structures | p. 34 |
Field photographs | p. 36 |
Depositional structures | p. 41 |
Field photographs: parallel lamination and stratification | p. 43 |
Field photographs: wavy and lenticular lamination, cross-lamination and stratification | p. 47 |
Field photographs: graded beds and structural sequences | p. 61 |
Post-depositional deformation and dewatering structures | p. 68 |
Field photographs: slides, slumps, and chaotica | p. 70 |
Field photographs: deformed bedding and shale clasts | p. 79 |
Field photographs: water escape and desiccation structures | p. 82 |
Biogenic sedimentary structures | p. 86 |
Field photographs: bioturbation and biogenic structures | p. 92 |
Chemogenic sedimentary structures | p. 100 |
Field photographs | p. 104 |
Sediment texture and fabric | p. 109 |
Sediment composition | p. 115 |
Hand-lens photographs | p. 118 |
Fossils | p. 120 |
Sediment colour | p. 121 |
Conglomerates | p. 126 |
Definition and range of types | p. 126 |
Principal sedimentary characteristics | p. 127 |
Classification of conglomerates | p. 130 |
Occurrence | p. 130 |
Field photographs | p. 130 |
Sandstones | p. 138 |
Definition and range of types | p. 138 |
Principal sedimentary characteristics | p. 139 |
Classification of sandstones | p. 141 |
Occurrence | p. 142 |
Field photographs | p. 143 |
Mudrocks | p. 150 |
Definition and range of types | p. 150 |
Principal sedimentary characteristics | p. 151 |
Classification of mudrocks | p. 153 |
Occurrence | p. 155 |
Field photographs | p. 155 |
Carbonate Rocks | p. 164 |
Definition and range of types | p. 164 |
Principal sedimentary characteristics | p. 165 |
Classification of carbonate rocks | p. 169 |
Principal characteristics of dolomites | p. 170 |
Occurrence | p. 170 |
Field photographs | p. 171 |
Cherts and Siliceous Sediments | p. 184 |
Definition and range of types | p. 184 |
Principal sedimentary characteristics | p. 185 |
Occurrence | p. 186 |
Field photographs | p. 187 |
Phosphorites | p. 192 |
Definition and range of types | p. 192 |
Principal sedimentary characteristics | p. 193 |
Occurrence | p. 194 |
Field photographs | p. 194 |
Coal and Oil | p. 198 |
Definition and range of types | p. 198 |
Principal sedimentary characteristics | p. 199 |
Occurrence | p. 202 |
Field photographs | p. 203 |
Evaporites | p. 208 |
Definition and range of types | p. 208 |
Principal sedimentary characteristics | p. 209 |
Occurrence | p. 211 |
Field photographs | p. 211 |
Ironstones | p. 218 |
Definition and range of types | p. 218 |
Principal sedimentary characteristics | p. 219 |
Occurrence | p. 221 |
Field photographs | p. 221 |
Soils, Paleosols, and Duricrusts | p. 230 |
Definition and range of types | p. 230 |
Principal sedimentary characteristics | p. 231 |
Field photographs | p. 233 |
Volcaniclastic Sediments | p. 238 |
Definition and range of types | p. 238 |
Principal sedimentary characteristics | p. 239 |
Occurrence | p. 242 |
Field photographs | p. 243 |
Interpretations and Depositional Environments | p. 254 |
Building blocks | p. 254 |
Facies characteristics and models | p. 255 |
Facies sequences and cycles | p. 257 |
Lateral trends and geometry | p. 258 |
Architectural elements and facies associations | p. 259 |
Sequence stratigraphy and bounding surfaces | p. 259 |
Field photographs: cycles, geometry, and unconformities | p. 263 |
Sediment interpretation in cores | p. 272 |
Core photographs | p. 270 |
Controls, rates, and preservation | p. 272 |
Depositional environments | p. 273 |
Field photographs: alluvial-fluvial environments | p. 274 |
Field photographs: desert-eolian environments | p. 275 |
Field photographs: glacial environments | p. 276 |
Field photographs: deltaic environments | p. 277 |
Field photographs: volcaniclastic environments | p. 279 |
Field photographs: shallow marine clastic environments | p. 279 |
Field photographs: marine evaporites and carbonates | p. 281 |
Field photographs: deep marine environments | p. 283 |
Tables: diagnostic features | p. 287 |
References and Key Texts | p. 298 |
Metric-Imperial Conversions | p. 300 |
Index | p. 301 |
Appendices | |
Stratigraphic timescale | p. 314 |
Mapping symbols | p. 317 |
Grain-size comparator chart | p. 318 |
Sediment description checklist | p. 318 |
Wulff stereonet | p. 319 |
Lambert equal-area projection | p. 320 |
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