Sedimentology of gravels and congomerates / Осадконакопление гравелитов и конгломератов

The theme of this Memoir originated with the 11th Congress of the International Association of Sedimentologists held at McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada during August 1982. It was in March 1979 that a University of Saskatchewan colleague, Hugh E. Hendry and myself proposed to the Congress Organizing Committee that a comprehensive synthesis of current knowledge on conglomeratic sediments was timely. This proposal materialised into a 12-day symposium, chaired by the present co-editors, of 29 oral papers with published abstracts — 14 of which became material for this Memoir. 
Immediately following the Congress and with a view to publication, additional papers aimed at improving the coverage of processes and environments as well as the spread of field areas and geologic age were solicited. The C.S.P.G. Memoir series was selected for publication because of the Canadian site for the 11th Congress, the prior international success of Memoir 5 on Fluvial Sedimentology edited by A.D. Miall, and the now popular large-format page size. After this decision in March 1983, papers were refereed, revised and edited: the contract with McAra Printing Limited commenced in April 1984. 
The result is 29 original papers by authors from 13 countries on the sedimentology of modern and ancient gravelly deposits (their basinal controls, depositional processes, facies sequences and economic aspects) tackled using outcrop and sub-surface data ranging in age from Proterozoic to Recent from five continents, as well as experimental work and hydrodynamic principles. The authors are an international group of researchers from resource companies, government surveys and universities — the papers representing both recent thesis work and grant- or company-supported projects of established sedimentologists.  <...>