Ancient Sedimentary Environments

This edition retains the case history approach to emphasize the subsurface diagnosis of environments using seismic and geophysical well logs and their application to petroleum exploration and production. This book should be of interest to undergraduates in sedimentology and petroleum geology.

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Richard Selley is Professor of Applied Sedimentology in the Department of Geology, Royal School of Mines, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of London. He worked for several years for Conoco in Libya and the North Sea, and has extensive international experience as a consultant and lecturer to the oil and mining industries.

Inhalt

Preface, Preface to the third edition, Preface to the second edition, Preface to the first edition, Acknowledgements, A note about references, 1. Concepts and methods, 2. Methods of environmental interpretation, 3. River deposits, 4. Wind-blown deposits, 5. Lake deposits, 6. Deltas, 7. Linear terrigenous shorelines, 8. Mixed terrigenous: carbonate shorelines, 9. Terrigenous shelf sediments, 10. Carbonate shelves, 11. Reefs, 12. Deep water sands, 13. Pelagic deposits, Index