Sedimentary rocks contain the most important archive of environmental change through
earth history. They record changing climates, the movement of plates, and the rise and fall of …

Authoritative, accessible, and updated introduction to sedimentary rocks for undergraduate
students Sedimentary Petrology provides readers with a concise account of sedimentary …

Many sedimentary successions are composed of metre-to decametre-scale cycles exhibiting
various stratal architectures that depend on the complex interplay among several …

Currently accepted depositional models of coastal facies derive mostly from studies of
modern depositional systems combined with interpretations of ancient successions. Two …

Hypotheses advanced concerning the origin of the Pleistocene Hulopoe Gravel on Lanai
include mega-tsunami, abandoned beach,'multiple event,'rocky shoreline, and for parts of …

The Fucino Basin was the greatest lake of the central Italy, which was completely drained at
the end of 19th century. The basin is an intramontane half-graben filled by Plio–Quaternary …

This research aims at delineating the main structural elements controlling the geologic
setting of Taranaki Basin in New Zealand which in turn control the hydrocarbon potential of …

Facies analysis of widely distributed exposures of the 32· 6 km2 and 8· 1‐km‐long Warm
Spring Canyon fan, central Death Valley, shows that it has been built principally by debris …

The fundamental controls on the initiation and development of gravel-dominated deposits
(beaches and barriers) on paraglacial coasts are particle size and shape, sediment supply …

Tidal processes can have a significant impact on the sedimentological and ichnological
character of wave-dominated shoreface deposits. As the influence of tides increases, the …