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Sedimentology

These links and readings are provided to support the Sedimentology module at the University of Derby, and are in addition to the classes, and the course and practical notes available from the University of Derby web site. It is not necessarily given in exactly the same order as in the course.

Textbook references are to:

TUCKER, M.E. 2001. Sedimentary Petrology: an introduction to the origin of sedimentary rocks. 3rd edition. Blackwell Scientific Publications.

JAMES, N.P. & DALRYMPLE, R.W. 2010. Facies Models 4. Geological Association of Canada. (or equivalent chapters in earlier editions by Walker and James)

Topic		Warm shallow marine and shelf carbonate environments
Reading		Tucker, chapter 4, sections 4.6, 4.10.2, 4.10.3, 4.10.4, 4.10.5, 4.10.9 James & Dalrymple, chapters 14, 15, 16
Online lectures, tutorials & reading		Geological Research on Northern Great Bahama Bank Ocean drilling off Great Bahama Bank Florida Bay Bottom Types
Case Studies		Solnhofen Limestone, Germany
Virtual field trips		Virtual Fieldwork - Florida Keys A tropical carbonate beach A subtropical carbonate beach A modern carbonate beach and lagoon Pleistocene marine carbonate sands A Pliocene carbonate beach Ancient marine carbonate sands Ancient marine carbonate gravels Jurassic and Cretaceous Field Trip - Fossil Forest, Dorset, England Geology Field Trip -Osmington Oolite, Dorset, England - Corallian Strata Purbeck Formation - Facies and Sedimentary Environments
Images		NASA - Florida from the International Space Station NASA - The Everglades Visible Earth - Bahamas Great Bahama Bank NOAA - Coral reef image gallery Quaternary shell beach Coccolithophore bloom in the Celtic Sea

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