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F. J. Pettijohn
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The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
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Paul Edwin Potter
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University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, USA
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Raymond Siever
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Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Introduction and Source Materials
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- F. J. Pettijohn, Paul Edwin Potter, Raymond Siever
Pages 1-21
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The Fundamental Properties of Sandstones
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- F. J. Pettijohn, Paul Edwin Potter, Raymond Siever
Pages 25-67
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- F. J. Pettijohn, Paul Edwin Potter, Raymond Siever
Pages 69-95
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- F. J. Pettijohn, Paul Edwin Potter, Raymond Siever
Pages 97-135
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The Petrography of Sandstones
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Front Matter
Pages 137-137
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- F. J. Pettijohn, Paul Edwin Potter, Raymond Siever
Pages 139-213
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- F. J. Pettijohn, Paul Edwin Potter, Raymond Siever
Pages 215-248
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Processes that Form Sand and Sandstone
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Front Matter
Pages 249-249
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- F. J. Pettijohn, Paul Edwin Potter, Raymond Siever
Pages 251-273
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- F. J. Pettijohn, Paul Edwin Potter, Raymond Siever
Pages 275-320
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- F. J. Pettijohn, Paul Edwin Potter, Raymond Siever
Pages 321-340
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- F. J. Pettijohn, Paul Edwin Potter, Raymond Siever
Pages 341-423
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- F. J. Pettijohn, Paul Edwin Potter, Raymond Siever
Pages 425-474
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- F. J. Pettijohn, Paul Edwin Potter, Raymond Siever
Pages 475-518
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Back Matter
Pages 519-553
About this book
The first edition appeared fourteen years ago. Since then there have been significant advances in our science that warrant an updating and revision of Sand and Sandstone. The main framework of the first edition has been retained so that the reader can begin with the mineralogy and textural properties of sands and sandstones, progress through their organization and classification and their study as a body of rock, to consideration of their origin-prove nance, transportation, deposition, and lithification-and finally to their place in the stratigraphic column and the basin. The last decade has seen the rise of facies analysis based on a closer look at the stratigraphic record and the recognition of characteristic bed ding sequences that are the signatures of some geologic process-such as a prograding shallow-water delta or the migration of a point bar on an alluvial floodplain. The environment of sand deposition is more closely determined by its place in such depositional systems than by criteria based on textural characteristics-the "fingerprint" approach. Our revi sion reflects this change in thinking. As in the geological sciences as a whole, the concept of plate tectonics has required a rethinking of our older ideas about the origin and accumu lation of sediments-especially the nature of the sedimentary basins.
Authors and Affiliations
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The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
F. J. Pettijohn
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University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, USA
Paul Edwin Potter
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Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
Raymond Siever