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RR 2004/94 Encyclopedia of Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks Edited by Gerard V. Middleton Kluwer Academic Publishers Dordrecht 2003 xxx + 822 pp. ISBN 1 4020 0872 4 £250/$399
Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series
Keywords Geology, Earth sciences, Encyclopaedias
Review DOI 10.1108/09504120410521132
This massive tome is part of the series Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences, which provides comprehensive coverage of all the main areas in the earth sciences. At present there are another nine volumes in print with two more forthcoming after this one. The series editors are Rhodes W. Fairbridge and Michael R. Rampino.
This volume in the series is edited by Gérard V. Middleton (his forename is incorrectly given as Gerald on the front cover), who is Professor Emeritus of Geology at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario. It is a revision of a work first published 25 years ago (Fairbridge and Bourgeois, 1978). Obviously, over this number of years advances...