Cyclic Sedimentation
Published on 1. January 1967
279 pages
978-0-08-086921-6 (ISBN)
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This book provides an overview of the developments in sedimentology. Despite the existence of a huge literature, this is the first time that a textbook has been written on the subject of cyclic sedimentation. The book tries to cover as much of the relevant data as is necessary to allow for adequate consideration of all significant hypotheses.
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- Front Cover
- Cyclic Sedimentation
- Copyright Page
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION
- Cycles, rhythms and cyclothems
- Nomenclature of cycles
- Methodology
- Classification and description
- CHAPTER 2. CYCLES IN FLUVIAL REGIMES
- Cycles in the Old Red Sandstone of Britain
- Molasse of Switzerland
- Fluvio-lacustrine coal-bearing sequences of Gondwanaland
- Witwatersrand System of South Africa
- CHAPTER 3. CYCLES IN LACUSTRINE REGIMES
- Introduction
- Glacial varved clays
- Non-glacial lakes
- CHAPTER 4. TRANSITIONAL REGIMES, I-NORTH AMERICA
- United States of America
- Canada
- Theories of origin
- CHAPTER 5. TRANSITIONAL REGIMES, II-EUROPE
- Great Britain
- Continental Europe
- Discussion
- CHAPTER 6. EPICONTINENTAL MARINE ENVIRONMENTS, I
- Calcareous and argillaceous rocks
- Cycles composed of differing types of limestone
- Limestone-dolomite cycles
- Cycles composed of limestones and argillaceous beds
- CHAPTER 7. EPICONTINENTAL MARINE ENVIRONMENTS, II
- Cycles with significant quantities of sandstone. ironstone and phosphorite: minor cycles with bituminous laminae
- Clay-sandstone-limestone cycles
- Clay-sandstone cycles
- Ironstone-bearing cycles
- Phosphorite-bearing cycles
- Minor cycles with bituminous laminae
- CHAPTER 8. EPICONTINENTAL MARINE ENVIRONMENTS, III
- Evaporite cycles
- Major cycles with subsidiary evaporites
- Cycles with dominant evaporites
- Evaporite varves and solar cycles
- CHAPTER 9. FLYSCH
- Modal cycles and composite sequences
- Ideal (model) cycle
- Megarhythms
- CHAPTER 10. SEDIMENTARY CYCLES AND FAUNAL CHANGE
- Faunal succession within major sedimentary cycles
- Faunal change between major sedimentary cycles
- CHAPTER 11. GENERAL CONCLUSIONS
- Sedimentary control
- Tectonic control
- Eustatic control
- Climatic control
- Cycles and time
- REFERENCES
- INDEX
