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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Algal and bacterial carbonate sediments
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    Chapter 2 Allophane and imogolite
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    Chapter 3 Alluvial fans
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    Chapter 4 Anabranching rivers
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    Chapter 5 Ancient karst
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    Chapter 6 Angle of repose
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    Chapter 7 Anhydrite and gypsum
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    Chapter 8 Ankerite (in sediments)
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    Chapter 9 Armor
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    Chapter 10 Atterberg limits
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    Chapter 11 Attrition (abrasion), fluvial
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    Chapter 12 Attrition (abrasion), marine
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    Chapter 13 Authigenesis
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    Chapter 14 Autosuspension
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    Chapter 15 Avalanche and rock fall
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    Chapter 16 Avulsion
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    Chapter 17 Bacteria in sediments
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    Chapter 18 Ball-and-pillow (pillow) structure
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    Chapter 19 Bar, littoral
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    Chapter 20 Barrier islands
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    Chapter 21 Bauxite
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    Chapter 22 Beachrock
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    Chapter 23 Bedding and internal structures
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    Chapter 24 Bedset and laminaset
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    Chapter 25 Bentonites and tonsteins
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    Chapter 26 Berthierine
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    Chapter 27 Bioclasts
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    Chapter 28 Bioerosion
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    Chapter 29 Biogenic sedimentary structures
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    Chapter 30 Black shales
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    Chapter 31 Braided channels
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    Chapter 32 Calcite compensation depth
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    Chapter 33 Caliche - calcrete
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    Chapter 34 Carbonate diagenesis and microfabrics
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    Chapter 35 Carbonate mineralogy and geochemistry
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    Chapter 36 Carbonate mud-mounds
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    Chapter 37 Cathodoluminescence (applied to the study of sedimentary rocks)
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    Chapter 38 Cation exchange
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    Chapter 39 Cave sediments
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    Chapter 40 Cements and cementation
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    Chapter 41 Chalk
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    Chapter 42 Charcoal in sediments
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    Chapter 43 Chlorite in sediments
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    Chapter 44 Classification of sediments and sedimentary rocks
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    Chapter 45 Clastic (Neptunian) dykes and sills
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    Chapter 46 Clathrates
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    Chapter 47 Clay mineralogy
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    Chapter 48 Climatic control of sedimentation
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    Chapter 49 Coal balls
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    Chapter 50 Coastal sedimentary facies
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    Chapter 51 Colloidal properties of sediments
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    Chapter 52 Colors of sedimentary rocks
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    Chapter 53 Compaction (consolidation) of sediments
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    Chapter 54 Convolute lamination
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    Chapter 55 Coring methods, cores
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    Chapter 56 Cross-stratification
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    Chapter 57 Cyclic sedimentation
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    Chapter 58 Debris flow
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    Chapter 59 Dedolomitization
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    Chapter 60 Deformation of sediments
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    Chapter 61 Deformation structures and growth faults
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    Chapter 62 Deltas and estuaries
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    Chapter 63 Depositional fabric of mudstones
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    Chapter 64 Desert sedimentary environments
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    Chapter 65 Desiccation structures (mud cracks, etc.)
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    Chapter 66 Diagenesis
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    Chapter 67 Diagenetic structures
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    Chapter 68 Diffusion, chemical
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    Chapter 69 Diffusion, turbulent
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    Chapter 70 Dish structure
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    Chapter 71 Dolomite textures
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    Chapter 72 Dolomites and dolomitization
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    Chapter 73 Dunes, eolian
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    Chapter 74 Earth flows
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    Chapter 75 Encrinites
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    Chapter 76 Eolian transport and deposition
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    Chapter 77 Erosion and sediment yield
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    Chapter 78 Evaporites
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    Chapter 79 Extraterrestrial material in sediments
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    Chapter 80 Fabric, porosity, and permeability
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    Chapter 81 Facies models
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    Chapter 82 Fan delta
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    Chapter 83 Features indicating impact and shock metamorphism
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    Chapter 84 Feldspars in sedimentary rocks
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    Chapter 85 Flame structure
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    Chapter 86 Flaser
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    Chapter 87 Flocculation
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    Chapter 88 Floodplain sediments
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    Chapter 89 Floods and other catastrophic events
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    Chapter 90 Flow resistance
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    Chapter 91 Fluid escape structures
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    Chapter 92 Fluid inclusions
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    Chapter 93 Flume
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    Chapter 94 Forensic sedimentology
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    Chapter 95 Gases in sediments
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    Chapter 96 Geodes
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    Chapter 97 Geophysical properties of sediments (acoustical, electrical, radioactive)
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    Chapter 98 Geothermic characteristics of sediments and sedimentary rocks
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    Chapter 99 Glacial sediments: Processes, environments and facies
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    Chapter 100 Glaucony and verdine
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    Chapter 101 Grading, graded bedding
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    Chapter 102 Grain flow
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    Chapter 103 Grain settling
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    Chapter 104 Grain size and shape
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    Chapter 105 Grain threshold
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    Chapter 106 Gravity-driven mass flows
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    Chapter 107 Gutters and gutter casts
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    Chapter 108 Heavy mineral shadows
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    Chapter 109 Heavy minerals
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    Chapter 110 Hindered settling
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    Chapter 111 Humic substances in sediments
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    Chapter 112 Hummocky and swaley cross-stratification
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    Chapter 113 Hydrocarbons in sediments
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    Chapter 114 Hydroxides and oxyhydroxide minerals
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    Chapter 115 Illite group clay minerals
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    Chapter 116 Imbrication and flow-oriented clasts
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    Chapter 117 Impregnation
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    Chapter 118 Iron–manganese nodules
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    Chapter 119 Ironstones and iron formations
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    Chapter 120 Isotopic methods in sedimentology
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    Chapter 121 Kaolin group minerals
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    Chapter 122 Kerogen
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    Chapter 123 Lacustrine sedimentation
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    Chapter 124 Laterites
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    Chapter 125 Lepispheres
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    Chapter 126 Liquefaction and fluidization
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    Chapter 127 Load structures
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    Chapter 128 Lunar sediments
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    Chapter 129 Magadiite
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    Chapter 130 Magnetic properties of sediments
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    Chapter 131 Mass movement
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    Chapter 132 Maturation, organic
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    Chapter 133 Maturity: textural and compositional
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    Chapter 134 Meandering channels
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    Chapter 135 Mélange; melange
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    Chapter 136 Micritization
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    Chapter 137 Microbially induced sedimentary structures
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    Chapter 138 Milankovitch cycles
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    Chapter 139 Mixed siliciclastic and carbonate sedimentation
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    Chapter 140 Mixed-layer clays
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    Chapter 141 Mixing models
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    Chapter 142 Mudrocks
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    Chapter 143 Neomorphism and recrystallization
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    Chapter 144 Nepheloid layer, sediment
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    Chapter 145 Neritic carbonate depositional environments
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    Chapter 146 Numerical models and simulation of sediment transport and deposition
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    Chapter 147 Oceanic sediments
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    Chapter 148 Offshore sands
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    Chapter 149 O
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    Chapter 150 Oolite and coated grains
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    Chapter 151 Ophicalcites
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    Chapter 152 Paleocurrent analysis
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    Chapter 153 Parting lineations and current crescents
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    Chapter 154 Peat
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    Chapter 155 Petrophysics of sand and sandstone
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    Chapter 156 Phosphorites
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    Chapter 157 Physics of sediment transport: The contributions of R. A. Bagnold
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    Chapter 158 Pillar structure
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    Chapter 159 Placers, fluvial
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    Chapter 160 Placers, marine
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    Chapter 161 Planar and parallel lamination
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    Chapter 162 Porewaters in sediments
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    Chapter 163 Pressure solution
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    Chapter 164 Provenance
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    Chapter 165 Pseudonodules
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    Chapter 166 Quartz, detrital
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    Chapter 167 Red beds
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    Chapter 168 Reefs
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    Chapter 169 Relict and palimpsest sediments
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    Chapter 170 Relief peels
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    Chapter 171 Resin and amber in sediments
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    Chapter 172 Ripple, ripple mark, ripple structure
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    Chapter 173 Rivers and alluvial fans
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    Chapter 174 Sabkha, salt flat, salina
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    Chapter 175 Salt marshes
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    Chapter 176 Sands, gravels, and their lithified equivalents
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    Chapter 177 Sapropel
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    Chapter 178 Scour, Scour marks
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    Chapter 179 Seawater: Temporal changes in the major solutes
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    Chapter 180 Sediment fluxes and rates of sedimentation
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    Chapter 181 Sediment transport by tides
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    Chapter 182 Sediment transport by unidirectional water flows
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    Chapter 183 Sediment transport by waves
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    Chapter 184 Sedimentary geology
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    Chapter 185 Sedimentary structures as way-up indicators
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    Chapter 186 Sedimentology, history
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    Chapter 187 Sedimentology: history in Japan
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    Chapter 188 Sedimentology—organizations, meetings, publications
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    Chapter 189 Sedimentologists: Ralph Alger Bagnold (1896–1990)
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    Chapter 190 Sedimentologists: Joseph Barrell (1869–1919)
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    Chapter 191 Sedimentologists: Robin G.C. Bathurst (1920–)
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    Chapter 192 Sedimentologists: Lucien Cayeux (1864–1944)
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    Chapter 193 Sedimentologists: Carl Wilhelm Correns (1893–1980)
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    Chapter 194 Sedimentologists: Robert Louis Folk (1925–)
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    Chapter 195 Sedimentologists: Grove Karl Gilbert (1843–1918)
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    Chapter 196 Sedimentologists: Amadeus William Grabau (1870–1946)
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    Chapter 197 Sedimentologists: Amanz Gressly (1814–1865)
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    Chapter 198 Sedimentologists: William Christian Krumbein (1902–1979)
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    Chapter 199 Sedimentologists: Paul Dimitri Krynine (1902–1964)
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    Chapter 200 Sedimentologists: Philip Henry Kuenen (1902–1976)
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    Chapter 201 Sedimentologists: John Murray (1841–1914) and the Challenger expedition
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    Chapter 202 Sedimentologists: Francis J. Pettijohn (1904–1999)
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    Chapter 203 Sedimentologists: Rudolf Richter (1881–1957), and the senckenberg laboratory
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    Chapter 204 Sedimentologists: Henry Clifton Sorby (1826–1908)
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    Chapter 205 Sedimentologists: William H. Twenhofel (1875–1957)
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    Chapter 206 Sedimentologists: Johan August Udden (1859–1932)
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    Chapter 207 Sedimentologists: T. Wayland Vaughan (1870–1952)
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    Chapter 208 Sedimentologists: Johannes Walther (1860–1937)
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    Chapter 209 Sediments produced by impact
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    Chapter 210 Septarian concretions
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    Chapter 211 Silcrete
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    Chapter 212 Siliceous sediments
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    Chapter 213 Slide and slump structures
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    Chapter 214 Slope sediments
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    Chapter 215 Slurry
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    Chapter 216 Smectite group
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    Chapter 217 Solution breccias
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    Chapter 218 Speleothems
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    Chapter 219 Spiculites and spongolites
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    Chapter 220 Stains for carbonate minerals
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    Chapter 221 Statistical analysis of sediments and sedimentary rocks
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    Chapter 222 Storm deposits
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    Chapter 223 Stromatactis
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    Chapter 224 Stromatolites
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    Chapter 225 Stylolites
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    Chapter 226 Submarine fans and channels
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    Chapter 227 Substrate-controlled ichnofacies
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    Chapter 228 Sulfide minerals in sediments
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    Chapter 229 Surface forms
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    Chapter 230 Surface textures
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    Chapter 231 Swash and backwash, swash marks
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    Chapter 232 Syneresis
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    Chapter 233 Talc
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    Chapter 234 Taphonomy: Sedimentological implications of fossil preservation
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    Chapter 235 Tectonic control of sedimentation
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    Chapter 236 Tidal flats
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    Chapter 237 Tidal inlets and deltas
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    Chapter 238 Tides and tidal rhytmites
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    Chapter 239 Tills and tillites
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    Chapter 240 Tool marks
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    Chapter 241 Toxicity of sediments
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    Chapter 242 Tracers for sediment movement
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    Chapter 243 Tufas and travertines
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    Chapter 244 Tsunami deposits
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    Chapter 245 Turbidites
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    Chapter 246 Upwelling
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    Chapter 247 Varves
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    Chapter 248 Vermiculite
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    Chapter 249 Weathering, soils, and paleosols
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    Chapter 250 X-ray radiography
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    Chapter 251 Zeolites in sedimentary rocks
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Title
Sedimentology
Published by
Springer Berlin Heidelberg, September 2006
DOI 10.1007/3-540-31079-7
ISBNs
978-0-87933-152-8, 978-3-54-031079-2
Authors/Editors

Rhodes W. Fairbridge, Joanne Bourgeois

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