Evolving concepts in sedimentology.
By: Edited by Robert N. Ginsburg.
Contributors: Ginsburg, Robert N., ed.; Pettijohn, F. J. 1904-; Johns Hopkins University.
Series: The Johns Hopkins University studies in geology,; no. 21
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 1973
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
Subjects: Sedimentology -- Congresses
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
At head of title: For Francis Pettijohn, teacher and geologist.
Essays first read at a conference at Johns Hopkins University in January 1971.
Table of contents: title: R. G. Walker. Mopping up the turbidite mess.; title: H. P. Eugster. Experimental geochemistry and the sedimentary environment: Van't Hoff's study of marine evaporites.; title: K. J. Hsü. The odyssey of geosyncline.; title: E. F. McBride. Concepts of Appalachian Basin sedimentation.; title: R. L. Folk. Carbonate petrography in the post-Sorbian age.; title: A. Seilacher. Biostratinomy: the sedimentology of biologically standardized particles.; title: P. Hoffman. Recent and ancient algal stromatolites: seventy years of pedagogic cross-pollination.