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Environmental Sedimentology. Edited by CHRIS PERRY and KEVIN TAYLOR Oxford: Blackwell, 2007, 441 pp. £39.99 paperback ISBN 978 1 405115 15 5
Environmental sedimentology addresses the functioning and dynamics of contemporary sediment systems and how these systems respond to a range of both natural and anthropogenically induced disturbance events. The book considers a variety of environments including mountain, fluvial, lacustrine, arid, urban, deltaic and estuarine, temperate coastal, tropical coastal, and continental shelf. Each chapter provides an overview of the environment considered, the main sources and dynamics of sediment production and transfer, and also explores the impacts of a range of natural and anthropogenic disturbances. Aspects of sediment management and...