This special publication Perspectives in Carbonate Geology is a collection of papers most of which were presented at a symposium to honor the 80th birthday of Bob Ginsburg at the meeting of Geological Society of America in Salt Lake City in 2005. The majority of the papers in this publication are connected with the study of modern carbonate sediments. Bob Ginsburg pioneered the concept of comparative sedimentology - that is using the modern to compare to and relate to and understand the ancient. These studies are concerned with Bob's areas of passion: coral reefs and sea-level; submarine cementation and formation of beach rock; surface sediments on Great Bahama Bank and other platforms; origin of ooids; coastal sediments; formation of stromatolites; impact of storms on sediments; and the formation of dolomite. The remainder of the papers apply the study of modern environments and sedimentary processes to ancient sediments.  

Recent other publications of the International Association of Sedimentologists

 

SPECIAL PUBLICATIONS

40           Analogue and Numerical Modelling of Sedimentary Systems
From Understanding to Prediction
Edited by P. de Boer, G. Postma, K. van der Zwan, P. Burgess and P. Kukla
2008, 336 pages, 172 illustrations

39           Glacial Sedimentary Processes and Products
                Edited by M.J. Hambrey, P. Christoffersen, N.F. Glasser and B. Hubbard
                2007, 416 pages, 181 illustrations

38           Sedimentary Processes, Environments and Basins
                A Tribute to Peter Friend
                Edited by G. Nichols, E. Williams and C. Paola
                2007, 648 pages, 329 illustrations

37           Continental Margin Sedimentation
From Sediment Transport to Sequence Stratigraphy
Edited by C.A. Nittrouer, J.A. Austin, M.E. Field, J.H. Kravitz, J.P.M. Syvitski and P.L. Wiberg
2007, 549 pages, 178 illustrations

36           Braided Rivers
                Process, Deposits, Ecology and Management
                Edited by G.H. Sambrook Smith, J.L. Best, C.S. Bristow and G.E. Petts
                2006, 390 pages, 197 illustrations

35           Fluvial Sedimentology VII
                Edited by M.D. Blum, S.B. Marriott and S.F. Leclair
                2005, 589 pages, 319 illustrations

REPRINT SERIES

4              Sandstone Diagenesis: Recent and Ancient
                Edited by S.D. Burley and R.H. Worden
                2003, 648 pages, 223 illustrations

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