Sedimentary environments: processes, facies and stratigraphy / Осадочные среды: процессы, фации и стратиграфия

The first edition of this book was conceived in 1974 to provide a comprehensive text, covering modern and ancient environments, suitable for advanced university students, research workers and professional geologists. To cover all environments and facies with the authority of an active research worker, we formed a group of authors who knew each other well and shared a similar philosophical view. We could criticize, amend and integrate each other's contributions, while retaining individual styles and responsibility for each chapter.
The outlines of the second edition remained the same as the first edition, although each chapter was extensively rewritten, with many new figures, and a few changes of authors. The third edition has also been changed substantially. This is primarily because of the need to add sequence stratigraphic models to those of facies sedimentology. Two chapters have been dropped ('Pelagic Environments' and 'Sedimentation and Tectonics'); 'Volcanic Environments' has been added and the two chapters previously devoted to 'Deltas' and 'Siliciclastic Shorelines' have  been combined under 'Clastic Coasts'. <...>