Reaffirms the vital importance of stratigraphy to the earth sciences, and introduces the undergraduate to its key elements in a lively and interesting fashion. ... » 

Reaffirms the vital importance of stratigraphy to the earth sciences, and introduces the undergraduate to its key elements in a lively and interesting fashion. In part I the author outlines key concepts including the foundations of sedimentology and sedimantary environments. Part II elucidates the basic principles of stratigraphic analysis, while part III shows how stratigraphy is used in understanding sedimantary basin evolution, the interplay between tectonics and sedimantation, paleoenvironmental reconstruction, paleoclimatology, and the geologic history of other planets. «