Deltas occur on every continent across the earth and their deposits span the geological record from the Precambrian to the Holocene. This work contains selected papers presented at the IAS-sponsored International Symposium on the Geology of Deltas, held in Port Harcourt, Nigeria in May 1992.
Contents: General considerations; Delta facies and architecture; Aspects of sedimentary petrology and diagenesis in deltas; Niger Delta: Exploration and production perspectives, in a total of 21 chapters.