An accessible introductory text for geology students, which encompasses both sedimentary rocks and stratigraphy. Sedimentary Geology utilizes important current research in tectonics and sedimentation and focuses on crucial geological principles. The text covers a wide range of topics, including trace fossils, mudrocks, diagentetic structures, and seismic stratigraphy. Contributions from chemistry, physics and structure are drawn upon throughout the book.
The Second Edition brings the text right up-to-date and includes new sections on peri-glacial environments and the use of palesols; new research covering recent thoughts about aragonite/calcite seas; new developments in organodiagenetic dolomite models; and perspective on the effect of drastic historical changes in the earth and findings on these changes in the sedimentary record.

PART I: SEDIMENTARY PROCESSES AND PRODUCTS
Sedimentary Rocks: An Introduction
Weathering
Clastic Transport and Fluid Flow
Sedimentary Structures
PART II: SILICICLASTIC SEDIMENTS AND ENVIRONMENTS
Sandstones and Conglomerates
Mudrocks
Siliciclastic Diagenesis
Terrestrial Sedimentary Environments
Coastal Environments
Siliciclastic Marine and Pelagic Environments
PART III: BIOGENIC, CHEMICAL AND OTHER NON-SILICICLASTIC SEDIMENTARY ROCKS
Carbonate Rocks
Carbonate Environments
Other Biogenic Sedimentary Rocks
Chemical and Non-Epiclastic Sedimentary Rocks
PART IV: STRATIGRAPHY
Lithostratigraphy
Biostratigraphy
Geophysical and Chemostratigraphic Correlation
Geochronology and Chronostratigraphy
Sedimentary Rocks in Space and Time
APPENDICES
North American Stratigraphic Code (1983)
Geologic Time Scales
References
Index

DONALD R. PROTHERO, Occidental College, USA.

FREDERIC SCHWAB, Washington and Lee University, USA.