Earth surface processes, landforms and sediment deposits / Процессы на земной поверхности, формы рельефа и отложения осадков

Earth surface processes, landforms, and sediment deposits are intimately related – involving erosion of rocks, generation of sediment, and transport and deposition of sediment through various Earth surface environments. These processes, and the deposits and landforms that they generate, have a fundamental bearing on engineering, environmental and public safety issues; on recovery of economic resources; and on our understanding of Earth history. This unique textbook brings together the traditional disciplines of sedimentology and geomorphology to explain Earth processes, landforms, and sediment deposits in a comprehensive and integrated way. Progressing from small-scale to largescale phenomena, with frequent reference to environmental and economic applications, this text presents a rigorous treatment that assumes only a modest background knowledge of mathematics and science. It is the ideal resource for a two-semester course in sedimentology, stratigraphy, geomorphology, and Earth surface processes from the intermediate undergraduate to beginning graduate level. The book is accompanied by a website hosting illustrations and material on field and laboratory methods for measuring, describing, and analyzing Earth surface processes, landforms, and sediments (www.cambridge.org/earthsurfaceprocesses). <...>