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This completely revised and enlarged second edition provides an
up-to-date overview of all major topics in sedimentary geology. It
is unique in its quantitative approach to denudation-accumulation
systems and basin fillings, including dynamic aspects. The
relationship between tectonism and basin evolution as well as the
concepts of sequence cycle and event stratigraphy in various
depositional environments are extensively discussed. Numerous,
often composite figures, a well-structured text, brief summaries in
boxes, and several examples from all continents make the book an
invaluable source of information for students, researchers and
professors in academia as well as for professionals in the oil
industry.
The completely revised and enlarged second edition of this book provides an up-to-date overview of all major topics in sedimentary geology. It is unique in its quantitative approach to denudation-accumulation systems and basin fillings, including dynamic aspects. The relationship between tectonism and basin evolution as well as the concepts of sequence cycle and event stratigraphy in various depositional environments are extensively discussed. Due to rapid progress in the past decade in the fields of sediment budget as well as sequence, cycle and event stratigraphy, a complete revision of Chapters 7, 9 and 11 was necessary. Numerous, often composite figures, a well-structured text, brief summaries in boxes, and several examples from all continents make the book an invaluable source of information for students, researchers and professors in academia as well as for professionals in the oil industry.
The problem of bedding, a basic feature of most sedimenta- ry
rocks, is as old as the science of geology itself. We use bedding
in structural geology, regional correlation and for estimating the
time involved in the strati'9Taphic record. Nevertheless we still
are far from fully under- standing the processes involved. This is
particularly true for carbonate rocks, where primary phenomena are
sometimes difficult to separate from the secondary diagenetic over-
print. After new interest in the subject had arisen from the
International Deep Sea Drilling Project and from pa- leoecological
studies in our own research group (Sonder- forschungsbereich 53
"Pal6kologie"), a Rundgesprach (work- shop) was held in Tlibingen
on April 25th - 27th 1980. The present volume, which resulted from
this symposium, con- tains a variety of contributions, including
some by col- leagues that were unable to attend the meeting itself.
Papers whose authors did not submit an elaborated manu- script, are
represented by abstracts in the form presented for the meeting. Our
own interest in the problem envolved from studies of
"Fossil-Bonanzas", such as the Solnhofen lithographic lime- stones
or the bituminous Posidonia shales, in which the unusual kind and
preservation of fossils indicated extre- me environmental
conditions. During these studies (see sununary reports in Zbl.
Geol. Palaont. II, 1976 and N. Jb. Geol. Palaont. , 157, 1978) we
realized that even in these cases one single environmental model is
usually insuffi- cient to explain the conflicting evidences.
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