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Summary
Summary
Earth 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 unique 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.
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For readers who have tasted the study of earth surface processes only within a physical geology monograph, this book is what they have hungered for. After a brief overview that serves as a refresher, Bridge and Demicco (both, SUNY, Binghamton) launch into detailed descriptions of specific processes, adding mathematical modeling and rigor to what might have been thought of as a descriptive field of study. The volume encompasses both sedimentology (erosion, transport, and deposition under various environmental conditions) and geomorphology (study of landforms and their creation). Wherever possible, current, ongoing surface processes are analyzed, including the resulting models used to interpret ancient erosional and depositional environments that led to today's rock formations. Implications for economic, safety, and engineering issues are discussed. This detailed, comprehensive, well-organized book is richly supported with figures and illustrations. Some of the photographs are small but can be accessed and magnified on the companion Web site. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and graduate students. R. Zeheb Lahey Clinic
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | p. vii |
| Figure credits | p. viii |
| Part 1 Introduction | p. 1 |
| 1 Definitions, rationale, and scope of the book | p. 3 |
| 2 Overview of the Earth | p. 9 |
| Part 2 Production of sediment at the Earth's surface | p. 43 |
| 3 Weathering of rocks, production of terrigenous sediment, and soils | p. 45 |
| 4 Biogenic and chemogenic sediment production | p. 85 |
| Part 3 Fundamentals of fluid flow, sediment transport, erosion, and deposition | p. 119 |
| 5 Unidirectional turbulent water flow, sediment transport, erosion, and deposition | p. 121 |
| 6 Air flow, sediment transport, erosion, and deposition | p. 195 |
| 7 Multidirectional water flow, sediment transport, erosion, and deposition | p. 213 |
| 8 Movement of sediment by gravity | p. 255 |
| 9 Generation and movement of volcaniclastic sediment | p. 278 |
| 10 Ice flow, sediment transport, erosion, and deposition | p. 292 |
| 11 Biogenic and chemogenic depositional structures | p. 311 |
| 12 Post-depositional deformation of soft sediment | p. 352 |
| Part 4 Environments of erosion and deposition | p. 363 |
| 13 Rivers, alluvial plains, and fans | p. 365 |
| 14 Lakes | p. 462 |
| 15 Coasts and shallow seas | p. 473 |
| 16 Arid environments | p. 563 |
| 17 Glacial and periglacial environments | p. 595 |
| 18 Deep seas and oceans | p. 630 |
| Part 5 Sediment into rock: diagenesis | p. 671 |
| 19 Diagenesis | p. 673 |
| Part 6 Long-term, large-scale processes: mountains and sedimentary basins | p. 701 |
| 20 Tectonic, climatic, and eustatic controls on long-term, large-scale erosion and deposition | p. 703 |
| References | p. 742 |
| Index | p. 795 |
