We substantially revised the first and second editions of this book while retaining our original objectives: to help you better understand (1) the processes that erode, transport, and deposit sediments (sedimentology); (2) the characteristics and origins of sedimentary rocks (sedimentary petrology); and (3) the complex distribution of the sedimentary rock record in space and time (stratigraphy). The first two areas are the subjects of Chapters 1 through 14. The field of stratigraphy is covered in Chapters 15 through 19.

LISP-UK studies
BLACK, K. S. & PATERSON, D. M. LISP-UK Littoral Investigation of Sediment Properties: an introduction
DYER, K. R. The typology of intertidal mudflats
AMOS, C. L., BRYLINSKY, M., SUTHERLAND, T. F., O'BRIEN, D., LEE, S. & CRAMP, A. The stability of a mudflat in the Humber estuary, South Yorkshire, UK
CHRISTIE, M. C. & DYER, K. R. Measurements of the turbid tidal edge over the Skeffling mudflats

LAW, D. J. & BALE, A. J. In situ characterization of suspended particles using focused-beam, laser reflectance particle sizing
BROWN, S. L. Sedimentation on a Humber saltmarsh
WIDDOWS, J., BRINSLEY, M. & ELLIOTT, M. Use of in situ flume to quantify particle flux (biodeposition rates and sediment erosion) for an intertidal mudflat in relation to changes in current velocity and benthic macrofauna

Sedimentary rock-hosted disseminated gold ores lithologically and chemically similar to those of Carlin-type deposits of the western United States are present in the Yauricocha district, central Peru. The Purisima Concepcion deposit is located in the core of a steeply plunging anticline several hundred meters beyond large pipe-shaped Cu-Zn-Pb-Ag-Au replacement orebodies in limestone bordering a late Miocene granodiorite stock. The central part of the stock is potassium-silicate altered and contains high-salinity fluid inclusions.

The intensive studies in the I 960's and I 970's of modern hallow marine carbonate environments in the Persian Gulf (e.g., Shearman, 1963, 1966; Kinsman, 1966; Butler, I 970; Kendall and Skipwith, 1969; Purser, 1973), Florida and the Bahamas (e.g., Shinn and others, 1969; Hardie, 1977a; Enos and Perkins, 1979), and Western Australia (e.g., Logan and others, 1970, 1974b), led to spectacular advances in our understanding of the deposition and early diagenesis of carbonate rocks. These stud1es were part of a major revolution in edimentology that saw a radical change from an approach based heavily on grain textures to one based on sedimentary structures and early diagenetic features. In this new approach, paleo-environments of serumentary deposits are ruagnosed from the vertical and lateral rustribution of elemental rock uruts (subfacies and faCJes), characterized principally by their assemblages of sedimentary structures and early diagenetic features in combinallon With other properties such as sedimentary textures and biota, using analogs established from observations of processes and their sedimentary records 10 modem depositional environments (the "comparative sedimentology" method of Ginsburg, I 974) <...>