The basic material for this book has been accumulated from time to time over the author’s working lifetime of about 40 years. The rules-and-pairs approach to Fourier transforms has been employed with good effect in a wide variety of problems, from pulse Doppler radar spectra to delay compensation, and antenna array patterns to efficient clutter simulation. It has been found generally easy and effective, quickly yielding useful results and allowing the user to see clearly the relationships between functions and transforms, waveforms and spectra, rather than losing sight of these in the complexities of integration. It seemed that the benefits of this approach should be better known, and the initial intention was to produce a technical note for use by the author’s colleagues and successors. However, the interest shown and encouragement given by Artech House have been gratefully received, and the opportunity to publicize the technique more widely has been taken.
The support of Roke Manor Research in providing the facilities and freedom to write this book is gratefully acknowledged, as are the backing of C. J. Tarran and the reviewing of S. H. W. Simpson. The final acknowledgment is to the publisher’s reviewer, remaining anonymous, who provided encouragement and useful comments.

The scale invariance of geological phenomena is one of the first concepts taught to a student of geology. It is pointed out that an object that defines the scale, i.e., a coin, a rock hammer, a person, must be included whenever a photograph of a geological feature is taken. Without the scale it is often impossible to determine whether the photograph covers 10 cm or 10 km. For example, self-similar folds occur over this range of scales.

Generic autogenic behaviour in fluvial systems: lessons from experimental studies

Climatic and tectonic controls on Triassic dryland terminal fluvial system architecture, central North Sea

Late Triassic to Early Jurassic climatic change, northern North Sea region: impact on alluvial architecture, palaeosols and clay mineralogy

Applying accommodation versus sediment supply ratio concepts to stratigraphic analysis and zonation of a fluvial reservoir

Investigating the autogenic process response to allogenic forcing: experimental geomorphology and stratigraphy

The autostratigraphic view of responses of river deltas to external forcing: a review of the concepts

Autogenic process change in modern deltas: lessons for the ancient

It is our impression that, over the last couple of decades, fluvial geomorphology and fluvial sedimentary geology have been developing in parallel, rather than in conjunction as might be expected. Though we tell our students that these are interdependent disciplines, perusal of the literature uggests there has been a failure of each domain to inform and recognize the needs of the other. Many facts have been collected, from both modem and ancient examples, yet our widerstanding of the sedimentary record of 1ivers eems not to have advanced significantly. It is still a struggle to map the architecture ob erved in the preserved rock record to the genetic components recorded from active modern rivers. Determination of the lateral extent and va1iation of lithofacies remains exceedingly problematic, especially in the subsurface.