Developments in sedimentology. Volume 1. Deltaic and shallow marine deposits / Достижения в седиментологии. Том 1. Дельтовые и мелководные морские отложения

The great contributions of CAYEUX (1941) have been a major factor in recognizing the environments in which sediments were deposited. However, I can certainly agree with BROUWER (1962) that Cayeux was too pessimistic in saying that it is uniquely by the analysis of ancient sediments that we can get to understand the conditions in marine basins of the past. It is quite possible that some of these ancient deposits were formed under conditions that no longer exist, but it seems likely that our failure to find analogies between past and present is due largely to the sparcity of studies in modern sedimentary basins. Compared to the thousands of geologists who are investigating ancient sediments there are only a handful of us who have been studying the Recent although we now have many new recruits. <...>