Sand and Sandstone

Description

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. Front Matter....Pages i-xix Introduction and Source Materials....Pages 1-21 Front Matter....Pages 23-23 Mineral and Chemical Composition....Pages 25-67 Texture....Pages 69-95 Sedimentary Structures and Bedding....Pages 97-135 Front Matter....Pages 137-137 Petrography of Common Sands and Sandstones....Pages 139-213 Volcaniclastic Sandstones and Associated Rocks....Pages 215-248 Front Matter....Pages 249-249 Production and Provenance of Sand....Pages 251-273 Transportation and Deposition of Sand....Pages 275-320 Paleocurrents and Dispersal....Pages 321-340 Sandy Depositional Systems....Pages 341-423 Diagenesis....Pages 425-474 Sandstones, Tectonics, and Continental Evolution....Pages 475-518 Back Matter....Pages 519-553