Publisher's Synopsis
Retaining the field- and laboratory-orientated approach of the original edition, this introductory textbook has been revised and rewritten to include new information on the properties of fluids and flows, sands and sandstones, gravels and conglomerates, structures of chemical and biological origin and deformation structures.;The revisions take account of advances in experimental work and of a deeper appreciation of aeolian, shallow marine, volcaniclastic, carbonate and mass-flow processes. Emphasis is placed on methodology and processes whereby scientific understanding is achieved. The problem-recognition, problem-solving approach of the data-response exercises has been augmented since the first edition.
