Earth Surface Processes, Landforms and

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 landforms and deposits 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 surface processes, landforms and sediment deposits in a comprehensive and integrated way. 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 also accompanied by a website hosting illustrations and material on field and laboratory methods for measuring, describing and analyzing Earth surface processes, landforms and sediments.

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Figure credits	p. viii
Introduction	p. 1
Definitions, rationale, and scope of the book	p. 3
Overview of the Earth	p. 9
Production of sediment at the Earth's surface	p. 43
Weathering of rocks, production of terrigenous sediment, and soils	p. 45
Biogenic and chemogenic sediment production	p. 85
Fundamentals of fluid flow, sediment transport, erosion, and deposition	p. 119
Unidirectional turbulent water flow, sediment transport, erosion, and deposition	p. 121
Air flow, sediment transport, erosion, and deposition	p. 195
Multidirectional water flow, sediment transport, erosion, and deposition	p. 213
Movement of sediment by gravity	p. 255
Generation and movement of volcaniclastic sediment	p. 278
Ice flow, sediment transport, erosion, and deposition	p. 292
Biogenic and chemogenic depositional structures	p. 311
Post-depositional deformation of soft sediment	p. 352
Environments of erosion and deposition	p. 363
Rivers, alluvial plains, and fans	p. 365
Lakes	p. 462
Coasts and shallow seas	p. 473
Arid environments	p. 563
Glacial and periglacial environments	p. 595
Deep seas and oceans	p. 630
Sediment into rock: diagenesis	p. 671
Diagenesis	p. 673
Long-term, large-scale processes: mountains and sedimentary basins	p. 701
Tectonic, climatic, and eustatic controls on long-term, large-scale erosion and deposition	p. 703
References	p. 742
Index	p. 795
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