A primary goal of geomorphological enquiry is to make genetic associations between process and form. In rock breakdown studies, the links between process, inheritance and lithology are not well constrained. In particular, there is a need to establish an understanding of feature persistence. That is, to determine the extent to which in situ rock breakdown (e.g., aeolian abrasion or salt weathering) masks signatures of earlier geomorphic transport processes (e.g., fluvial transport or crater ejecta). Equally important is the extent to which breakdown during geomorphic transport masks the imprint of past weathering (Viles et al., 2005). <...>

This book is a photographic introduction to metamorphic rocks. It is meant to be a survey of mostly typical metamorphic rocks, minerals, and structures as they appear in the field, and the metamorphic processes that make them. Its purpose is to help guide the eye of any student of geology to better see the geologic features in metamorphic rocks that might otherwise remain invisible or obscure. This book is a training tool, one of many, to help budding geologists of metamorphic rocks, young and old. <...>

This book is designed for a one-semester course in sedimentology taken by advanced undergraduate or graduate students. It gives detailed descriptions of sedimentary features and the analytical methods used to evaluate them and is intended to support and reinforce principles presented in lectures. Discussion of principles and processes is found in complimentary texts, such as Leeder's (1982) Sedimentology: process and product and selected readings in professional journals. 

This guide evolved from the materials that I have gathered over the years, mainly as lecture notes used for the 5–day training course GEOSTAT. This means that, in order to understand the structure of this book, it is important that you understand how the course evolved and how did the students respond to this process. The GEOSTAT training course was originally designed as a three–week block module with a balanced combination of theoretical lessons, hands on software training and self-study exercises.