Sedimentary Facies, Environments and Stratigraphy Peter Clift Tel: 3437.

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Sedimentary Facies, Environments and Stratigraphy Peter Clift Tel: 3437

James Hutton, father of geology

James Hutton, concept of unconformity

A global stratigraphy? Buckland

Modern processes in the ancient record, Lyell

Models versus field data, Lyell-De La Beche

Recognition of unconformity, De La Beche

Stratigraphic geometries in outcrop and seismic

Possible geometries for fill of negative relief

Basic elements of sequence stratigraphy

Sediment transport-current velocity

Current velocity-bedforms

Bedforms, cross stratification

Bedforms, Tabular and hummocky crosss stratification