Earth Surface Processes, Landforms and Sediment Deposits
Earth Surface Processes, Landforms and Sediment Deposits
Robert Demicco, State University of New York, Binghamton
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GBPEarth surface processes, landforms and sediment deposits are intimately related - involving erosion of rocks, generation of sediment, and transport and deposition of sediment through various Earth surface environments. These processes, and the landforms and deposits that they generate, have a fundamental bearing on engineering, environmental and public safety issues; on recovery of economic resources; and on our understanding of Earth history. This textbook brings together the traditional disciplines of sedimentology and geomorphology to explain Earth surface processes, landforms and sediment deposits in a comprehensive and integrated way. It is the ideal resource for a two-semester course in sedimentology, stratigraphy, geomorphology, and Earth surface processes from the intermediate undergraduate to beginning graduate level. The book is also accompanied by a website hosting illustrations and material on field and laboratory methods for measuring, describing and analyzing Earth surface processes, landforms and sediments.
- Integrates the study of sedimentology and geomorphology in a unique and effective way
- Provides a rigorous treatment assuming only modest background knowledge of mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology
- Covers environmental and economic applications
- Supplemented by online material on field and laboratory methods
Reviews & endorsements
'… very accessible and well organised … a suitable candidate for undergraduate courses in Earth Science and associated disciplines, and the detail found in some sections will benefit graduate-level students and professionals.' Progress in Physical Geography
'… an excellent book …' The Geographical Journal
'… the writing is authoritative, up-to-date references enable the reader to access source material with ease, the diagrams are excellent, the scope is novel and illuminating, the content is wide-ranging, and there is an invigorating focus on processes as the key to understanding … this … advanced-level textbook is a must-have for sedimentologists, Holocene or otherwise …' The Holocene
Product details
May 2008Hardback
9780521857802
832 pages
252 × 196 × 42 mm
1.99kg
717 b/w illus. 8 colour illus.
Available
Table of Contents
- Part I. Introduction:
- 1. Definitions, rationale and scope of the book
- 2. Overview of the Earth
- Part II. Production of Sediment at the Earth's Surface:
- 3. Weathering of rocks, production of terrigenous sediment, and soils
- 4. Biogenic and chemogenic sediment production
- Part III. Fundamentals of Fluid Flow, Sediment Transport, Erosion and Deposition:
- 5. Unidirectional turbulent water flow, sediment transport, erosion and deposition
- 6. Air flow, sediment transport, erosion and deposition
- 7. Multidirectional water flow, sediment transport, erosion and deposition
- 8. Movement of sediment by gravity
- 9. Generation and movement of volcaniclastic sediment
- 10. Ice flow, sediment transport, erosion and deposition
- 11. Biogenic and chemogenic depositional structures
- 12. Post-depositional deformation of soft sediment
- Part IV. Environments of Erosion and Deposition:
- 13. Rivers, alluvial plains and fans
- 14. Lakes
- 15. Coasts and shallow seas
- 16. Arid environments
- 17. Glacial and periglacial environments
- 18. Deep seas and oceans
- Part V. Sediment into Rock: Diagenesis:
- 19. Diagenesis
- Part VI. Long-term, Large-Scale Processes: Mountains and Sedimentary Basins:
- 20. Tectonic, climatic and eustatic controls on long-term, large-scale erosion and deposition
- References
- Index.
