Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-427) and index.
Environmental sedimentology : introduction / Chris Perry and Kevin Taylor -- Mountain environments / Jeff Warburton -- Fluvial environments / Karen Hudson-Edwards -- Lake environments / Lars Håkanson -- Arid environments / Anne Mather -- Urban environments / Kevin Taylor -- Deltaic and estuarine environments / Peter French -- Temperate coastal environments / Andrew Cooper -- Tropical coastal environments : coral reefs and mangroves / Chris Perry -- Continental shelf environments / Piers Larcombe.
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This edited work provides a comprehensive introduction to environmental sedimentology. It examines the functioning and dynamics of contemporary sediment systems and how these systems respond to a range of both natural and anthropogenically-induced disturbance events.