Table of Contents

1 Introduction; 2 Bedding; 3 Basic properties of fluids, flows and sediment; 4 Erosional structures; 5 Depositional structures in muds, mudstones and shales; 6 Depositional structures of sands and sandstones; 7 Depositional structures in gravels, conglomerates and breccias; 8 Depositional structures of chemical and biological origin; 9 Structures created by deformation and disturbance; 10 Assemblages of structures and environmental interpretation; Appendices. Bibliography. Index.

About the Author

John Collinson, formerly Professor of Sedimentology at the University of Bergen, now runs his own geological consultancy company. Nigel Mountney is Lecturer in Sedimentology at Keele University. David Thompson has now retired after many years as Senior Lecturer in the School of Education at Keele University.