Carbonate Sedimentology and Sequence Stratigraphy (Concepts in Sedimentology & Paleontology 8)

Sedimentology and stratigraphy are neighbors yet distinctly separate entities within the earth sciences. Sedimentology searches for the common traits of sedimentary rocks regardless of age as it reconstructs environments and processes of deposition and erosion from the sediment record. Stratigraphy, by contrast, concentrates on changes with time, on measuring time and correlating coeval events. Sequence stratigraphy straddles the boundary between the two fields. This book, dedicated to carbonate rocks, approaches sequence stratigraphy from its sedimentologic background. This book attempts to communicate by combining different specialities and different lines of reasoning, and by searching for principles underlying the bewildering diversity of carbonate rocks. It provides enough general background, in introductory chapters and appendices, to be easily digestible for sedimentologists and stratigraphers as well as earth scientists at large. This books presents a state of the art of carbonate sedimentology and sequence stratigraphy. It covers basic concepts of oceanography, carbonate mineralogy, principles of carbonate sedimentation as well as chapters on rhythms and evnts in carbonate stratigraphy. Especially the chapter on the Fundamentals of Sequence Stratigraphy is worthwhile reading for everyone dealing with that subject. There is also an Appendix containing chapters on Carbonate Modelling and Seismology. This book, dedicated to carbonate rocks, approaches sequence stratigraphy from its sedimentologic background. It attempts to communicate by combining different specialities and different lines of reasoning, and by searching for principles underlying the bewildering diversity of carbonate rocks. It provides enough general background, in introductory chapters and appendices, to be easily digestible for sedimentologists and stratigraphers as well as earth scientists at large Wolfgang Schlager. Title From Pdf T.p. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 175-193) And Indexes. Also Issued In Print. System Requirements: Cd-rom Drive; Adobe Acrobat Reader.