Stratigraphy : a modern synthesis /

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Author / Creator:Miall, Andrew D., author.
Imprint:Cham : Springer, 2016.
Description:1 online resource (xvii, 454 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Language:English
Subject:Geology, Stratigraphic.
Geological surface processes (geomorphology)
Deltas, estuaries, coastal regions.
Fossil fuel technologies.
Soil science, sedimentology.
Science -- Earth Sciences -- Geology.
Science -- Energy.
Science -- Earth Sciences -- Sedimentology & Stratigraphy.
Geology, Stratigraphic.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11251847
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ISBN:9783319243047
3319243047
9783319243023
3319243020
Digital file characteristics:text file PDF
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
English.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed January 11, 2016).
Summary:This book incorporates updated material on sequence stratigraphy, reflection-seismic methods, chronostratigraphy, and new concepts regarding the representation of time in the sedimentary record. It also includes a summary history of the development of ideas, concepts and methods leading to the modern stratigraphic synthesis, and features a comprehensive stratigraphic-sedimentologic database. Lastly, facies analysis and facies models are described in detail.
Other form:Print version: Miall, Andrew D. Stratigraphy. Cham : Springer, 2016 9783319243023 3319243020
Standard no.:10.1007/978-3-319-24304-7
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Summary:A Comprehensive review of modern stratigraphic methods. The stratigraphic record is the major repository of information about the geological history of Earth, a record stretching back for nearly 4 billion years. Stratigraphic studies fill out our planet's plate-tectonic history with the details of paleogeography, past climates, and the record of evolution, and stratigraphy is at the heart of the effort to find and exploit fossil fuel resources. Modern stratigraphic methods are now able to provide insights into past geological events and processes on time scales with unprecedented accuracy and precision, and have added much to our understanding of global tectonic and climatic processes. It has taken 200 years and a modern revolution to bring all the necessary developments together to create the modern, dynamic science that this book sets out to describe. Stratigraphy now consists of a suite of integrated concepts and methods, several of which have considerable predictive and interpretive power. The new, integrated, dynamic science that Stratigraphy has become is now inseparable from what were its component parts, including sedimentology, chronostratigraphy, and the broader aspects of basin analysis.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xvii, 454 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:9783319243047
3319243047
9783319243023
3319243020