Principles of stratigraphy
Principles of Stratigraphy reaffirms the vital importance of stratigraphy to the earth sciences and introduces the reader to its key elements in a lively and interesting fashion. The book is divided into four parts. Part One outlines key concepts including the foundations of sedimentology and sedimentary environments. Part Two elucidated the basic principles of stratigraphic analysis, while Parts Three and Four show how stratigraphy is used in understanding sedimentary basin evolution, the interplay between tectonics and sedimentation, paleoenvironmental reconstruction, paleoclimatology, and the geological history of other planets. There is also a chapter devoted to "problem" periods in earth history, in which both the strengths and limitations of stratigraphic methods are illustrated
Print Book, English, ©2004
Blackwell Pub., Malden, MA, ©2004