Sedimentary Geology

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Available August 2013
Sedimentary Geology

Third Edition ©2013

ISBN-10: 1-4292-3155-6
ISBN-13: 978-1-4292-3155-8
Cloth Text, 500 pages

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Authors

• Donald R. Prothero
  Occidental College
• Fred Schwab
  Washington & Lee University

• Approachable, easy-to-read style that looks at topics in geology in relation to the big picture without being bogged down in excessive details
• Includes crucial, contemporary research on tectonics and sedimentation, basin analysis, sequence stratigraphy, stable isotope stratigraphy, new methods of geochronology.
• Includes topics normally neglected in other texts, such as trace fossils, mudrocks, diagentetic structures, volcaniclastic rocks, the theory of stratigraphic accumulation unconformities, and seismic stratigraphy