Call number:
AWI G1-96-0290
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents: 1 Introduction. - Why lecturing? Why this Textbook? Why Physical Principles? Why a Readable Textbook? 2 Sorting Out And Mixing. - Bulk Minerals - Heavy Minerals - Size and Sorting Exclusion Principle 3 Grains Settle. - Stokes' Law - why Derivation - Dimensional Analysis Fluid Resistance - Reynolds Number - Resistance Coefficient Lacustrine Varves. - 4 Sediments Are Moved. - Turbidity Currents - Chezy's Equation - Stream Transport Shield's Diagram - Hjulström's Curve. - 5 Rocks Fall. - Sediment - Gravity Flows - Elm Landslide - Grand Banks Slide Speed of Slides - Debris Flows - Sand Avalanches Mud Slide - Olistostrome. - 6 Suspensions Flow. - Suspension Current - Auto-suspension - Bagnold's Criterion - Chezy-Kuenen Equation - Keulegan's Law Energy Line. - 7 Sand Waves Migrate. - Froude Number - Richardson Number - Model Theory - Bedform Point-Bar Sequence - Faciès Models. - 8 Oceans Are Ventilated. - Ocean Currents - Bernoulli's Theorem - Darcy-Weisbach Equation Contourites. - 9 Groundwater Circulates. - Darcy Equation - Poiseuille Law - Hydrodynamic Potential Permeability - Compaction - Diffusion. - 10 Components Equilibrate. - Mass-Action Law - Gibbs Criteria of Chemical Equilibrium - First and Second Law of Thermodynamics - Lewis Concept of Chemical Activity - Carbonate Equilibria Metastable Phases - Calcite Dissolution. - 11 Evaporation Pumps. - Dolomite - Dolomite Solubility Material Transfer in Open Systems Seepage Refluxing - Evaporative Pumping - Flood Recharge. - 12 Isotopes Fractionate. - Isotopes - Isotope Tracers - Paleotemperature - Paleoproductivity - Strangelove Ocean. - 13 Basins Subside. - Isostasy - Airy Model - Crustal Thinning - Mantle Heterogeneity Lithospheric Stresses. - 14 Why Creativity in Geology?. - Appendix I. - Appendix II. - References. - Index.
Description / Table of Contents:
Physical principles of sedimentology is a textbook devoted to the physics of sedimentological processes. The applicability of fundamental principles, such as Newton's Three Laws of Motion, the Law of Conservation of Energy, the First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics, and of other physical relations in hydraulics and groundwater hydrology is illustrated by discussions of natural processes which form sediments or sedimentary rocks. The author's educational background as a major in physics and geology, and his 40-year experience in teaching and research have enabled him to bring together physics and geology in this enjoyable and highly readable text.
Type of Medium:
Monograph available for loan
Pages:
X, 233 S. : Ill., graph. Darst., Kt.
ISBN:
3540512683
Branch Library:
AWI Library
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