Sedimentology
Subtitle: recent developments and applied aspects
By: edited by P.J. Brenchley & B.P.J. Williams.
Contributors: Brenchley, P. J.; Williams, B. P. J.; Geological Society of London.; British Sedimentological Research Group.
Series: Geological Society special publication ;; no. 18
Publisher: Published for the Geological Society by Blackwell Scientific Publications
Published: 1985
Place of publication: Oxford; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
Subjects: Rocks, Sedimentary -- Congresses.; Sedimentation and deposition -- Congresses.; Facies (Geology) -- Congresses.; Diagenesis -- Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.
Papers presented to a meeting of the British Sedimentological Research Group, held at the University of Liverpool, Dec. 1982.
Table of contents: title: Loose-boundary hydraulics and fluid mechanics / J.R.L. Allen; title: Clastic facies models and facies analysis / R. Anderton; title: Recent shelf clastic sediments / I.N. McCave; title: Deep-sea clastics / D.A.V. Stow; title: Deep-sea pelagic sediments and palaeo-oceanography / J.K. Leggett; title: Facies analysis of volcaniclastic sediments / R.J. Suthren; title: Shallow-marine carbonate facies and facies models / M.E. Tucker; title: Diagenesis of shallow-marine carbonates / J.A.D. Dickson; title: Clastic diagenesis / S.D. Burley, J.D. Kantorowicz & B. Waugh; title: Sedimentary ore deposits / H. Clemmey; title: Role of clastic sedimentology in the exploration and production of oil and gas in the North Sea / H.D. Johnson and D.J. Stewart; title: Carbonate facies analysis in the exploration for hydrocarbons / T.P. Burchette & S.R. Britton.