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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Overview | |
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| About this book | |
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| Classification of sedimentary rocks | |
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| Economic studies | |
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| Field Techniques | |
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| Safety in the field | |
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| Field equipment | |
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| General approach and field notebook | |
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| Basic measurements and data records | |
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| Field sketches and logs | |
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| Paleocurrent and paleoslope analysis | |
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| Stratigraphic procedure and way-up criteria | |
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| Other techniques | |
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| Principal Characteristics of Sedimentary Rocks | |
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| Introduction and facies concept | |
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| Bedding and lamination | |
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| Field photographs | |
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| Erosional structures | |
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| Field photographs | |
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| Depositional structures | |
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| Field photographs: parallel lamination and stratification | |
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| Field photographs: wavy and lenticular lamination, cross-lamination and stratification | |
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| Field photographs: graded beds and structural sequences | |
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| Post-depositional deformation and dewatering structures | |
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| Field photographs: slides, slumps, and chaotica | |
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| Field photographs: deformed bedding and shale clasts | |
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| Field photographs: water escape and desiccation structures | |
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| Biogenic sedimentary structures | |
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| Field photographs: bioturbation and biogenic structures | |
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| Chemogenic sedimentary structures | |
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| Field photographs | |
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| Sediment texture and fabric | |
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| Sediment composition | |
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| Hand-lens photographs | |
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| Fossils | |
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| Sediment colour | |
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| Conglomerates | |
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| Definition and range of types | |
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| Principal sedimentary characteristics | |
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| Classification of conglomerates | |
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| Occurrence | |
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| Field photographs | |
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| Sandstones | |
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| Definition and range of types | |
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| Principal sedimentary characteristics | |
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| Classification of sandstones | |
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| Occurrence | |
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| Field photographs | |
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| Mudrocks | |
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| Definition and range of types | |
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| Principal sedimentary characteristics | |
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| Classification of mudrocks | |
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| Occurrence | |
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| Field photographs | |
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| Carbonate Rocks | |
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| Definition and range of types | |
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| Principal sedimentary characteristics | |
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| Classification of carbonate rocks | |
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| Principal characteristics of dolomites | |
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| Occurrence | |
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| Field photographs | |
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| Cherts and Siliceous Sediments | |
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| Definition and range of types | |
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| Principal sedimentary characteristics | |
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| Occurrence | |
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| Field photographs | |
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| Phosphorites | |
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| Definition and range of types | |
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| Principal sedimentary characteristics | |
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| Occurrence | |
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| Field photographs | |
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| Coal and Oil | |
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| Definition and range of types | |
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| Principal sedimentary characteristics | |
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| Occurrence | |
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| Field photographs | |
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| Evaporites | |
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| Definition and range of types | |
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| Principal sedimentary characteristics | |
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| Occurrence | |
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| Field photographs | |
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| Ironstones | |
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| Definition and range of types | |
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| Principal sedimentary characteristics | |
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| Occurrence | |
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| Field photographs | |
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| Soils, Paleosols, and Duricrusts | |
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| Definition and range of types | |
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| Principal sedimentary characteristics | |
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| Field photographs | |
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| Volcaniclastic Sediments | |
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| Definition and range of types | |
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| Principal sedimentary characteristics | |
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| Occurrence | |
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| Field photographs | |
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| Interpretations and Depositional Environments | |
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| Building blocks | |
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| Facies characteristics and models | |
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| Facies sequences and cycles | |
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| Lateral trends and geometry | |
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| Architectural elements and facies associations | |
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| Sequence stratigraphy and bounding surfaces | |
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| Field photographs: cycles, geometry, and unconformities | |
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| Sediment interpretation in cores | |
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| Core photographs | |
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| Controls, rates, and preservation | |
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| Depositional environments | |
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| Field photographs: alluvial-fluvial environments | |
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| Field photographs: desert-eolian environments | |
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| Field photographs: glacial environments | |
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| Field photographs: deltaic environments | |
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| Field photographs: volcaniclastic environments | |
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| Field photographs: shallow marine clastic environments | |
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| Field photographs: marine evaporites and carbonates | |
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| Field photographs: deep marine environments | |
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| Tables: diagnostic features | |
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| References and Key Texts | |
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| Metric-Imperial Conversions | |
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| Index | |
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| Appendices | |
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| Stratigraphic timescale | |
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| Mapping symbols | |
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| Grain-size comparator chart | |
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| Sediment description checklist | |
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| Wulff stereonet | |
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| Lambert equal-area projection | |