Written by one of the most outstanding scientists in the field of fluvial sedimentology, this book offers coverage of this field.[...]
This text incorporates 1990s developments in chronostratigraphy, sequence stratigraphy, sedimentation and tectonics. This edition airs evidence pointing to the importance of tectonism as a process that may generate sequences over a wide range of temporal and physical scales.[...]
It has been more than a decade since the appearance of the First Edition of this book. Much progress has been made, but some controversies remain. The original ideas of Sloss and of Vail (building on the early work of Blackwelder, Grabau, Ulrich, Levorsen and others) that the stratigraphic record co[...]