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Sedimentology and sedimentary basins : from turbulence to tectonics / Mike Leeder
Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Publisher: Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 2nd ed (Online-Ausg.)Description: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (xiii, 768 p.)) : illISBN:- 9781282939943
- 1282939947
- 9781444328479
- 552/.5 22
- 552.5
- QE471
Contents:
Summary: Sedimentology and Sedimentary Basins: From Turbulence to Tectonics -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Part 1: MAKING SEDIMENT -- Introduction -- 1 CLASTIC SEDIMENT AS A CHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL BREAKDOWN PRODUCT -- 1.1 Introduction: clastic sediments- 'accidents' of weathering -- 1.2 Silicate minerals and chemical weathering -- 1.3 Solute flux: rates and mechanisms of silicate chemical weathering -- 1.4 Physical weathering -- 1.5 Soils as valves andfilters for the natural landscape -- 1.6 Links between soil age, chemical weathering and weathered-rock removal -- 1.7 Provenance: siliciclastic sedimentsourcing -- Further reading -- 2 CARBONATE, SILICEOUS, IRON-RICH AND EVAPORITE SEDIMENTS -- 2.1 Marine vs. freshwater chemical composition and fluxes -- 2.2 The calcium carbonate system in the oceans -- 2.3 Ooid carbonate grains -- 2.4 Carbonate grains from marine plants and animals -- 2.5 Carbonate muds, oozes and chalks -- 2.6 Other carbonate grains of biological origins -- 2.7 Organic productivity, sea-level and atmospheric controls of biogenic CaCO3 deposition rates -- 2.8 CaCO3 dissolution inthe deep ocean and the oceanic CaCO3 compensationmechanism -- 2.9 The carbonate system on land -- 2.10 Evaporite salts and their inorganic precipitation as sediment -- 2.11 Silica and pelagic plankton -- 2.12 Iron minerals and biomineralizers -- 2.13 Desert varnish -- 2.14 Phosphates -- 2.15 Primary microbial-induced sediments: algal mats and stromatolites -- Further reading -- 3 SEDIMENT GRAIN PROPERTIES -- 3.1 General -- 3.2 Grain size -- 3.3 Grain-size distributions -- 3.4 Grain shape and form -- 3.5 Bulk properties of grain aggregates -- Further reading -- Part 2: MOVING FLUID -- Introduction -- 4 FLUID BASICS -- 4.1 Material properties of fluids -- 4.2 Fluid kinematics -- 4.3 Fluid continuity with constant density -- 4.4 Fluid dynamics.PPN: PPN: 809179954Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-26-MYL | ZDB-30-PQE
""TITLE""; ""COPYRIGHT""; ""PREFACE""; ""ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS""; ""Part 1: MAKING SEDIMENT""; ""Chapter 1: CLASTIC SEDIMENT AS A CHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL BREAKDOWN PRODUCT""; ""1.1 Introduction: clastic sediments-'accidents' of weathering""; ""1.2 Silicate minerals and chemical weathering""; ""1.3 Solute flux: rates and mechanisms of silicate chemical weathering""; ""1.4 Physical weathering""; ""1.5 Soils as valves and filters for the natural landscape""; ""1.6 Links between soil age, chemical weathering and weathered-rock removal""; ""1.7 Provenance: siliciclastic sediment-sourcing""
""Further reading""""Chapter 2: CARBONATE, SILICEOUS, IRON-RICH AND EVAPORITE SEDIMENTS""; ""2.1 Marine vs. freshwater chemical composition and fluxes""; ""2.2 The calcium carbonate system in the oceans""; ""2.3 Ooid carbonate grains""; ""2.4 Carbonate grains from marine plants and animals""; ""2.5 Carbonate muds, oozes and chalks""; ""2.6 Other carbonate grains of biological origins""; ""2.7 Organic productivity, sea-level and atmospheric controls of biogenic CaCO3 deposition rates""; ""2.8 CaCO3 dissolution in the deep ocean and the oceanic CaCO3 compensation mechanism""
""2.9 The carbonate system on land""""2.10 Evaporite salts and their inorganic precipitation as sediment""; ""2.11 Silica and pelagic plankton""; ""2.12 Iron minerals and biomineralizers""; ""2.13 Desert varnish""; ""2.14 Phosphates""; ""2.15 Primary microbial-induced sediments: algal mats and stromatolites""; ""Further reading""; ""Chapter 3: SEDIMENT GRAIN PROPERTIES""; ""3.1 General""; ""3.2 Grain size""; ""3.3 Grain-size distributions""; ""3.4 Grain shape and form""; ""3.5 Bulk properties of grain aggregates""; ""Further reading""; ""Part 2: MOVING FLUID""; ""Chapter 4: FLUID BASICS""
""4.1 Material properties of fluids""""4.2 Fluid kinematics""; ""4.3 Fluid continuity with constant density""; ""4.4 Fluid dynamics""; ""4.5 Energy, mechanical work and power""; ""Further reading""; ""Chapter 5: TYPES OF FLUID MOTION""; ""5.1 Osborne Reynolds and flow types""; ""5.2 The distribution of velocity in viscous flows: the boundary layer""; ""5.3 Turbulent flows""; ""5.4 The structure of turbulent shear flows""; ""5.5 Shear flow instabilities, flow separation and secondary currents""; ""5.6 Subcritical and supercritical flows: the Froude number and hydraulic jumps""
""5.7 Stratified flow generally""""5.8 Water waves""; ""5.9 Tidal flow-long-period waves""; ""Further reading""; ""Part 3: TRANSPORTING SEDIMENT""; ""Chapter 6: SEDIMENT IN FLUID AND FLUID FLOW-GENERAL""; ""6.1 Fall of grains through stationary fluids""; ""6.2 Natural flows carrying particulate material are complex""; ""6.3 Fluids as transporting machines""; ""6.4 Initiation of grain motion""; ""6.5 Paths of grain motion""; ""6.6 Categories of transported sediment""; ""6.7 Some contrasts between wind and water flows""; ""6.8 Cohesive sediment transport and erosion""
""6.9 A warning: nonequilibrium effects dominate natural sediment transport systems""
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