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Earth surface processes, landforms and sediment deposits / John Bridge and Robert Demicco.

By: Contributor(s): Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 815 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780511805516 (ebook)
Other title:
  • Earth Surface Processes, Landforms & Sediment Deposits
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version: : No titleDDC classification:
  • 551.3 22
LOC classification:
  • QE571 .B82 2008
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction -- Production of sediment at the Earth's surface -- Fundamentals of fluid flow, sediment transport, erosion, and deposition -- Environments of erosion and deposition -- Sediment into rock : diagenesis -- Long-term, large-scale processes : mountains and sedimentary basins.
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 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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Introduction -- Production of sediment at the Earth's surface -- Fundamentals of fluid flow, sediment transport, erosion, and deposition -- Environments of erosion and deposition -- Sediment into rock : diagenesis -- Long-term, large-scale processes : mountains and sedimentary basins.

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 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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