London: Blackwell, 1978. — 558 p.
Часть 1The book describes the present day sedimentary environments and discusses the recognition of ancient analogues. It emphasises processes and their products, the use of facies, facies associations and sequences in interpretation of ancient rocks and how environmental recognition illuminates understanding of past climates, oceanography, biological evolution and tectonics.
Facies
Alluvial and fluvial environments
Lakes
Deserts
Deltas
Clastic coastlines
Arid coastlines and evaporites
Shallow silicaclastic seas
Shallow water carbonate environments
Pelagic environments
Deep clastic seas
Glacial environments
Sedimentation and tectonics
Problems and perspectives.