| #5790839 in Books | Springer | 1994-03-31 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 11.34 x.70 x8.78l,1.80 | File Name: 0442012179 | 217 pages |
||1 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Good to excellent content - terrible publishing policy|By awegweiser@edinboro.edu|Lewis (Not "Flewis") wrote a decent text a number of years ago. It was then expanded to a companion volume (Analytical Sedimentology) with another author. The two nicely complement each other but the mind boggles at a price of almost $100 per each. The publisher has clearly made little effort to|From the Back Cover|The new edition of this successful text is designed to provide an introduction to and a concise review of principles and interpretations related to sedimentary process, environments, and deposits. The book emphasizes application over theory
Sedimentology has neither been adequately popularized nor This book begins with a consideration of the complex end commonly taught as an interdisciplinary subject, and many product of processes and materials, the sedimentary environ workers in the areas of modem environment studies have very ment. It then proceeds to discuss the processes and materials limited knowledge of sedimentology. Practical Sedimentol themselves. The emphasis is on geological interpreta...
