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shallow processes and for the pursuit of more Sediments are now
known to undergo deforma tion in a wide variety of geological
circumstances. quantitative relationships. With these goals in The
deforming processes can happen on a vast mind, workers are
increasingly drawing on the scale and at all stages before the
material be principles and methods of the well-established comes
fully lithified. In fact, as exploration of the engineering
discipline of soil mechanics. earth continues, the widespread
extent and im All this is beginning to attract wider geological
portance of sediment deformation is still being interest. Yet to
the newcomer, because progress revealed, for example, below the
oceans and has been rapid in recent years, the literature is
beneath ice sheets. At the same time, it is still already
formidable. The information is scattered, being realized just how
varied are the resulting so even an expert on sediment deformation
in a structures, and how strikingly similar they can be certain
setting may be unaware of analogous to those produced by the
deformation of deeply problems and successes in other environments.
buried rocks. At the same time, although the same basic prin
However, there are few precedents to guide the ciples apply in the
various geological regimes, a geologist in interpreting structures
that formed in subtly different terminology is evolving, which
unlithified sediments, or in understanding the can make the subject
boundaries hard to cross."
shallow processes and for the pursuit of more Sediments are now
known to undergo deforma tion in a wide variety of geological
circumstances. quantitative relationships. With these goals in The
deforming processes can happen on a vast mind, workers are
increasingly drawing on the scale and at all stages before the
material be principles and methods of the well-established comes
fully lithified. In fact, as exploration of the engineering
discipline of soil mechanics. earth continues, the widespread
extent and im All this is beginning to attract wider geological
portance of sediment deformation is still being interest. Yet to
the newcomer, because progress revealed, for example, below the
oceans and has been rapid in recent years, the literature is
beneath ice sheets. At the same time, it is still already
formidable. The information is scattered, being realized just how
varied are the resulting so even an expert on sediment deformation
in a structures, and how strikingly similar they can be certain
setting may be unaware of analogous to those produced by the
deformation of deeply problems and successes in other environments.
buried rocks. At the same time, although the same basic prin
However, there are few precedents to guide the ciples apply in the
various geological regimes, a geologist in interpreting structures
that formed in subtly different terminology is evolving, which
unlithified sediments, or in understanding the can make the subject
boundaries hard to cross."
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