Fluvial Depositional Systems

Başlık:

Yazar:

Miall, Andrew. author.

ISBN:

9783319006666

Ek Yazar:

Miall, Andrew. author.

Fiziksel Tanım:

IX, 316 p. 232 illus., 105 illus. in color. online resource.

Series:

Springer Geology

Contents:

Introduction -- The facies and architecture of fluvial systems -- Allogenic sedimentary controls -- Sequence stratigraphy -- Modern depositional systems -- Ancient depositional systems.

Abstract:

The book summarizes methods of mapping and interpretation of fluvial depositional systems, with a detailed treatment of the tectonic, climatic and eustatic controls on fluvial depositional processes. It focuses on the preserved, ancient depositional record and emphasizes large-scale (basin-scale) depositional processes. Tectonic and climatic controls of fluvial sedimentation and the effects of base-level change on sequence architecture are discussed. Profusely illustrated and with an extensive reference to the recent literature, this book will be welcomed by the student and professional geologist alike.

Konu Terimleri:

Earth sciences.

Historical geology.

Sedimentology.

Added Corporate Author:

SpringerLink (Online service)

Electronic Access:

http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00666-6

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Özet

This book is intended to complement the author's 1996 book "The geology of fluvial deposits", not to replace it.

Author Notes

Andrew Miall was born in Brighton, England, and was educated there, obtaining a B.Sc. degree at the University of London in 1965. He then emigrated to Canada, and completed his Ph. D. at the University of Ottawa in 1969. He worked in and around the petroleum industry in Calgary for the next 10 years, including a 7-year term as a Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada, working on regional basin studies in the Canadian Arctic Islands. While in Calgary he conceived and chaired the First International Symposium on Fluvial Sedimentology in 1977, an event that is now held every 4 years. Andrew Miall moved to the University of Toronto in 1979, where he has been Professor of Geology. His research in the areas of fluvial sedimentology and sequence stratigraphy is widely used, and he has published several books on these topics. The 2ndedition of his book "The Geology of Stratigraphic Sequences" was published by Springer in 2010. In the same year he was selected by the federal Environment Minister, the Honorable James Prentice, to serve on a committee of six Canadian scientists enjoined with the task of improving environmental oversight and management of the Canadian oil sands.

Reviews (1)

Choice Review

This work, part of the "Springer Geology" series, can be best described as a book-length professional journal article. The intended audience is people who are already familiar with fluvial depositional systems. The author's purpose "is to discuss the new methods and the new understanding of fluvial depositional systems, with a particular emphasis on those techniques and results that are most useful for subsurface work." Throughout the book, Miall (Univ. of Toronto, Canada; The Geology of Fluvial Deposits, CH, Dec'96, 34-2173) emphasizes problems with making meaningful interpretations and predictions of the true three-dimensional shapes and interconnections of buried fluvial deposits, especially those useful as petroleum reservoirs. By means of numerous case histories, the author shows that trying to use studies of present depositional systems as a "key to the past" in interpreting the preserved and buried remnants of ancient fluvial deposits is fraught with many dangers. Similarly, the fragmentary nature of the preserved portions of buried fluvial deposits means that extrapolation from a few test wells and a few seismic sections may result in widely varying interpretations using the same data. Miall discusses all these problems, suggests better approaches to them, and explains why some of these problems may not have good solutions. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers/faculty, and professionals. C. W. Dimmick emeritus, Central Connecticut State University