A.J. (Tom) van Loon
Associate Editor for Book Reviews |
| BOOK REVIEWS - 2007 |
Introducing Geographical Information Systems with ArcGIS S
Featuring GIS Software from Environmental Systems Research Institute
Michael
Kennedy |
Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science
Scott
A. Elias
|
Isotopes in Palaeoenvirnmental Research
Melanie
J. Leng (ed.) |
Fundamental
Processes in Ecology—An
Earth Systems Approach
David
M. Wilkinson |
Introduction to Geomicrobiology
Kurt
Konhauser |
Triassic Evolution of the Yangtze Platform in Guizhou Province,
People’s Repubic of China
Paul
Enos, Daniel J. Lehrmann, Wei Jiayong, Yu Youyi, Xiao Jiafei, Daniel H. Chaikin, Marcello
Minzoni, Adrian K. Berry & Paul Montgomery (eds.) |
Oceans and Marine Geochemistry
Henry Elderfield (ed.) |
Handbook of Clay Science
F. Bergaya, B.K.G. Theng, and G. Lagaly (eds.) |
Principles
of Sedimentology and Stratigraphy
(4th ed.)
Sam Boggs, Jr. |
Encyclopedia of Caves
David Culver & William White (eds.) |
Evaporites—Sediments,
Resources and Hydrocarbons
John K. Warren |
Landslides from Massive Rock Failure
Stephen G. Evans, Gabriele Scarascia Mugnozza, Alexander Strom, & Reginald L.
Hermanns (eds.) |
The
Black
Sea
Flood Question—Changes in Coastline, Climate and Human Settlement
ValentinaYanko-Hombach, Allan S. Gilbert, Nicolae Panin, & Pavel M. Dolukhanov |
Braided Rivers—Process,
Deposits, Ecology & Management
G.H. Sambrook Smith, J.L. Best, C.S. Bristow, and G.E. Petts |
Understanding the Micro to Macro Behaviour of Rock–Fluid
Systems
R.P. Shaw (ed.) |
| BOOK REVIEWS - 2006 |
Pattern
Formation—An
Introduction to Methods
Rebecca Hoyle |
High Resolution Morphodynamics and Sedimentary Evolution of
Estuaries
Duncan M. FitzGerald & Jasper Knight (eds.) |
Late Quaternary Stratigraphic Evolution of the
Northern Gulf of Mexico Margin
John B. Anderson & Richard H. Fillon |
Geología
- una visión moderna de las Ciencias de la Tierra
Click here to read this review in Spanish.
Fernando Bastida |
Cool-Water Carbonates—Depositional
Systems and Palaeoenvironmental Controls
H.M. Pedley & G. Carannante |
Inventing the Earth
Barbara A. Kennedy |
The Antarctic Subglacial Lake Vostok—Glaciology,
Biology and Planetology Aspects
Igor V. Zotikov |
Univariate Time Series in Geosciences—Theory
and Examples
Hans Gilgen |
Extinctions in the History of Life
Paul D. Taylor |
Bedrock—Writers
on the Wonder of Geology
Lauret E. Savoy, Eldridge M. Moores, and Judith E. Moores (eds.) |
Cryospheric Systems: Glaciers and Permafrost
C. Harris and J.B. Murton |
The Barrier Zones in the Ocean
Emelyan M. Emelyanov |
Physical Processes in the Earth and Environmental Sciences
Mike Leeder and Marta Pérez-Arlucea |
The Desert of Southeast Arabia-Desert Environments and
Sediment
Kenneth W. Glennie |
Encyclopedia of Coastal Science
Maurice L. Schwartz |
Travertine
Allen Pentecost |
Principles of Sequence Stratigraphy
Octavian Catuneanu |
Weathering and Landscape Evolution—Proceedings
of the 35th Binghampton Symposium in Geomorphology
A. Turkington, J. Phillips, and S. Campbell |
Environment
Peter H. Raven and Linda R. Berg |
Edinburgh Rock—The
Geology of Lothian
Euan Clarkson and Brian Upton |
Debris-Flow Hazards and Related Phenomena
Matthias Jakob & Oldrich Hungr (eds.) |
Sedimentology in the Twenty-First Century—a
Tribute to Wolfgang Schlager
J.G. Reijmer and Adrian Immenhauser (eds.) |
Arabian Deserts: Nature, Origin, Evolution
H.S. Edgell |
Alluvial Fans: Geomorphology, Sedimentology,
Dynamics
A.M. Harvey, A.E. Mather, & M. Stokes (eds.) |
Deep-Water Processes and Facies Models:
Implications for Sandstone Petroleum Reservoirs
G. Shanmugam |
The Neuquén Basin, Argentina—A
Case Study in Sequence Stratigraphy and Basin Dynamics
G.D. Veiga, L.A. Spalletti, J.A. Howell, and E. Schwarz |
Practical and Theoretical Geoarchaeology
Paul Goldberg and Richard I. Macphail |
Metalliferous Sediments of the World
Ocean—Fundamental
Theory of Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Sedimentation
Evgeny G. Gurvich |
The Precambrian Earth: Tempos and
Events
P.G. Eriksson, W. Altermann, D.R. Nelson, W.U. Mueller, and O. Catuneanu |
Sediments, Diagenesis, and
Sedimentary Rocks
F.T. Mackenzie (ed.) |
Glossary of Geology, 5th Edition
Klaus K.E. Neuendorf (ed.) |
Loessology
Sun Jianzhong |
La Planète des Glaces (English) (French)
Brigitte van Vliet-Lanoë |
Submarine Slope Systems: Processes and
Products
D.M. Hodgson and S.S. Flint |
Geología de España (English)
(Spanish)
Juan Antonio Vera |
Reconstruction of Pleistocene Ice-Dammed
Lake Outburst Floods in the Altai Mountains, Siberia
Jürgen Herget |
The Evolution of Clastic Sedimentology
Hakuyu Okada and Alec Kenyon-Smith |
Aquifer Characterization
John S. Bridge & David W. Hyndeman (eds.) |
Cyclic Development of Sedimentary Basins
J.M. Mabesoone & V.H. Neumann (eds.) |
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BOOK REVIEWS - 2005
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Paleontological Data Analysis
Oyvind Hammer and David Harper |
River Deltas—Concepts,
Models, and Examples
Liviu Giosan and Jannok P. Bhattacharya |
Sedimentary Rocks in the Field—a
Colour Guide
Dorrick Stow |
Ground Penetrating Radar in Sediments
C.S. Bristow and H.M. Jol |
Carbonate Sedimentology and Sequence Stratigraphy
Wolfgang Schlager |
Geología de España (English)
(Spanish)
Juan Antonio Vera |
Catastrophies
and Lesser Calamities—the
Causes of Mass Extinctions
Tony
Hallam |
Introduction to the Physics of Cohesive Sediment in the
Marine Environment
J.C. Winterwerp and W.G.M. van Kesteren |
The History of Life, 4th Edition
Richard Cowan |
Deep-Water Sedimentation in the Alpine Basin of SE France: New
Perspectives on the Grès d’Annot and Related Systems
P. Joseph and S.A. Lomas (eds.) |
Iceland—Modern Processes and Past Environments
C. Caseldine, A. Russell, J. Harðardóttir,
and Ó. Knudsen (eds.) |
The Deposition of Organic-Carbon-Rich Sediments: Models,
Mechanisms, and Consequences
Nicholas B. Harris (ed.) |
Tracking Environmental Change Using Lake Sediments. Vol. 1:
Basin Analysis. Coring and Chronological Techniques
William M. Last and John P. Smol (eds.) |
Tracking
Environmental Change Using Lake
Sediments.
Vol. 2: Physical and Geochemical Methods
William M. Last and John P. Smol (eds.) |
Tracking
Environmental
Change
Using
Lake
Sediments, Vol. 3: Terrestrial, Algal and Siliceous Indicators
John
P. Smol, H. John B. Birks, and William M. Last (eds.) |
Tracking
Environmental Change Using Lake
Sediments.
Vol. 4: Zoological Indicators
John P. Smol, H. John B. Birks, and William M. Last (eds.) |
Geomorphology and River Management—Application
of the River Styles Framework
Gary J. Brierley, and Kirstie A. Fryirs |
Flocculation in Natural and Engineered Environmental Systems
I.G. Droppo, G.G. Leppard, S.N. Liss, and T.G. Milligan |
Mud & Mudstones
Paul E. Potter, Barry Maynard, and Pedro J. Depetris |
Geological
Prior Information—Informing
Science and Engineering
A. Curtis and R. Wood (eds.) |
The Geology and Petrogenesis of Dolomite
Hydrocarbon Reservoirs
C.J.R. Braithwaite, G. Rizzi, and G. Darke (eds.) |
Quaternary Glaciations—Extent and Chronology.
Part I: Europe
J. Ehlers and P.L. Gibbard (eds.) |
Fluvial Sedimentology VII
Michael D. Blum, Susan B. Marriott, and Suzanne F. Leclair (eds.) |
Basin Analysis—Principles and Applications
Philip A. Allen and John R. Allan |
Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences
Jacques Locat and Jürgen Mienart (eds.) |
Beaches and Coasts
Richard A. Davis, Jr., and Duncan M. Fitzgerald |
Encyclopedia of Geology
Richard C. Selly, L. Robin M. Cocks, and Ian R. Plimer (eds.) |
Forensic Geoscience---Principles, Techniques, & Applications
K. Pye and D.J. Croft |
Perilous Planet Earth---Catastrophies and Catastrophism through
the Ages
Trevor Palmer |
Introduction to Organic Geochemistry (2nd Edition)
Steve D. Killops & Vanessa J. Killops |
Microfacies of Carbonate Rocks—Analysis,
Interpretation and Application
Erik Flügel |
Time-series Analysis and Cyclostratigraphy—Examining
Stratigraphic Records of Environmental Cycles
Graham Weedon |
Physics of Sedimentology (second edition)
Kenneth J. Hsü |
A Practical Guide to the Study of Glacial
Sediments
David J.A. Evans and Douglas I. Benn |
Vertebrate Palaeontology (third edition)
Michael J. Benton |
Studies of Cave Sediments: Physical
and Chemical Records of Paleoclimate
Ira D. Sasowsky and John Mylroie |
Glaciers (second edition)
Michael Hambrey and Jürg Alean
BOOK REVIEWS - 2004
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Clay Seals of Oil and Gas
Deposits
V.I. Osipov, V.N. Sokolov, and V.V. Eremeev |
Weathering, Slopes, and
Landforms
David Atkinson |
Confined Turbidite Systems
S.A. Lomas and P. Joseph |
Sedimentary Processes:
Quantification Using Radionuclides
J. Carroll and I. Lerche |
Encyclopedia of Sediments
and Sedimentary Rocks
Gerald V. Middleton (ed.) |
Geosciences, Environment and
Man
Hervé Chamley |
Geochemistry
Francis Albarède |
The Cambrian Fossils of
Chengjiang, China: The Flowering of Early Animal Life
Hou Xian-Guang, Richard A. Aldridge, Jan Bergström, David J. Siveter, and Feng Xian-Hong |
The Sedimentary Record of
Sea-Level Change
Angela A. Coe, Dan W.J. Bosence, Kevin D. Church, Stephen S. Flint, John A. Howell, and
Chris L. Wilson (eds,) |
Principles of Stratigraphy
Michael E. Brookfield |
Stable Isotope Geochemistry, 5th
Revised and Updated Edition
Jochen Hoefs |
The Early Earth: Physical, Chemical and Biological
Development
C.M.R.
Fowler, C.J. Ebinger, and C.J. Hawkesworth (eds.) |
Course Manual and Atlas of Structural Styles on
Reflection Profiles from the Niger Delta
D.E. Ajakaiye & A.W. Bally |
The Geology of Spain
Wes Gibbons & Teresa Moreno (eds.)
|
BOOK REVIEWS - 2003 |
Pyroclastic
Density Currents and the Sedimentation of Ignimbrites
M.J.
Branney and P. Kokelaar |
The
Indus River---Biodiversity, Resources, Humankind
Azra Meadows & Peter Meadows (eds.) |
Sediment
Flux to Basins: Causes, Controls and Consequences
Stuart J. Jones and Lynne E. Frostick (eds.) |
Rivers and Floodplains---Forms, Processes and Sedimentary
Record
J.
Bridge (posted 8/20/03) |
Geological Perspectives of Global Climate Change
L.C.
Gerhard, W.E. Harrison, and B. M. Hanson (posted 6/30/03) |
Exposures of Mineral and Rock
Dirk J. Wiersma (posted 2/28/03) |
Fine Sediment Dynamics in the Marine Environment
J.C. Winterwerp and C. Kranenburg (posted 8/18/03) |
Clay Mineral Cements in Sandstones
R.H. Worden & S. Morad (eds.) (posted 8/18/03) |
European Margin Sediment Dynamics: Side-Scan Sonar and
Seismic Images
Jürgen
Mienert and Philip Weaver (eds.) (posted
8/18/03) |
Impacts in Precambrian Shields
J. Plado & L.J. Pesonen (eds.) (posted 8/18/03) |
Sandstone Diagenesis—Recent and Ancient
S.D. Burley & R.H. Worden (eds.) (posted 8/18/03) |
Muddy Coasts of the World: Processes, Deposits and Function
T. Healy, Y. Wang & J.-A. Healy (posted 1/24/03) |
Numerical Modelling and Analysis of Fluid Flow and
Deformation of Fractured Rock Masses
Xing Zhang & David J. Sanderson (eds.)(posted 1/24/03) |
Sedimentary Responses to Forced Regressions
D. Hunt and R.L. Gawthorpe (eds.)
(posted 1/24/03)
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BOOK REVIEWS - 2002
Geoenvironmental
Mapping?–Methods,
Theory and Practice
P.T.
Bobrowsky (ed.) (posted 10/29/02) |
Geology: A Self-Teaching
Guide
by Barbara
Murck (posted 10/29/02) |
Marine Authigenesis: From Global to
Microbial
edited by C.R. Glenn, L. Prévôt-Lucas & J. Lucas (posted 5/22/02) |
| Modern and Ancient Carbonate
Eolianites: Sedimentology, Sequence Stratigraphy, and Diagenesis
by F.E. Abegg, P.M. Harris & D.B. Loope (posted 5/22/02) |
| The Satanic Gases
by Patrick J. Michaels and Robert C. Balling (posted 5/22/02) |
| Subsurface Geology of a
Prograding Carbonate Platform Margin, Great Bahama Bank: Results of the Bahamas Drilling
Project
edited by Robert N. Ginsburg (posted 5/22/02) |
Dynamics of Rockslides and Rockfalls
by Theodor
H. Erismann & Gerhard Abele
(posted 03/07/02) |
| Mantle Plumes and their Record in Earth History
by K.
C. Condie
(posted 03/07/02) |
| Sedimentary Petrology (3rd ed.)
by M.E.
Tucker
(posted 03/07/02) |
Holocene avulsions in the Rhine-Meuse
delta, The Netherlands
by Esther
Stouthamer (posted 12/20/01) |
| Paleogeographic development of the Rhine-Meuse
delta, The Netherlands
by H.J.A. Berendsen & E. Stouthamer (posted 12/20/01) |
Petroleum Plays and Systems in the National Petroleum
Reserve – Alaska (NPRA)
by D.W. Houseknecht (ed.) (posted 12/20/01)
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BOOK REVIEWS - 2001
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Carbonate Reservoirs - Porosity Evolution
and Diagenesis in a Sequence Stratigraphic Framework
by Clyde H. Moore (posted 11/26) |
Dynamics of the Norwegian Continental Margin
edited by A
Nottvedt, B.T. Larsen, S. Olaussen, B. Torudbakken, J. Skogseid, R.H. Gabrielsen, H.
Brekke, O. Birkeland (posted 11/26) |
Deformation of Glacial Materials
edited by A.J. Maltman, B. Hubbard and M.J. Hambrey (posted 8/30) |
Geological Exploration in Murzuq Basin
edited by M.A. Sola and D. Worsley (posted 8/30) |
Analysis of Sedimentary Successions - A
Field Manual
by A. Bhattacharya and C. Chakraborty (posted 8/30) |
Geological History of Britain and Ireland
edited by N. Woodcock and R. Strachan (posted 7/5) |
Applied Sedimentology, second edition
by Richard C. Selley (posted 7/5) |
Applied Sandstone Diagenesis - Practical
Petrographic Solutions for a Variety of Common Exploration, Development and Production
Problems
by S.A. Stonecipher (posted 7/5) |
Caves of the Guadalupe Mountains
edited by L.D. Hose and J.A. Pisarowicz (posted 4/30) |
3-D Seismic
Interpretation: A Primer for Geologists
by B.S. Hart (posted 4/30) |
Reservoir Characterization - Recent Advances
edited by
Richard Schatzinger and J.F. Jordan (posted 2/26) |
Stratigraphic Systems: Their Origin and Application
by
Glenn S. Visher (posted 2/26) |
An Introduction to the Analysis of Ancient
Turbidite Basins from an Outcrop Perspective
by
E. Mutti, R. Tinterri, E. Remacha, N. Mavilla, S. Angella,
and L. Fava (posted 2/26) |
Siliciclastic Sequence Stratigraphy - Concepts and
Applications
by
H.W. Posamentier and G.P. Allen (posted 2/26) |
Sedimentary Basins - Evolution, Facies, and Sediment
Budget (2nd Edition)
by G. Einsele (posted 2/26) |
Active Tectonics and Alluvial Rivers
by S.A. Schumm, J.F. Dumont, and J.M. Holbrook (posted 2/26) |
Advances in Carbonate Sequence Stratigraphy: Applications
to Outcrops, Reservoirs and Models
edited by P.M. Harris, A.H. Saller, and J.A. Simo (posted 2/26) |
Mathematics: A Simple Tool for Geologists
by D. Waltham (posted 2/26) |
Principles
of Sedimentary Basin Analysis (third, updated and enlarged edition)
by Andrew D. Miall (posted 1/15) |
Field
Guide for AAPG Hedberg Research Conference - April 15-20, 1999, Deep-Water Sandstones,
Brushy Canyon Formation, West Texas
by R.T. Beauboef, C. Rossen, F.B. Zelt,
M.D. Sullivan, D.C. Mohrig and D.C. Jennette (posted
1/15) |
Microbial
Sediments
edited by Robert E. Riding and Stanley M.
Awramik (posted 1/15) |
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Book Reviews - 2000 |
OTHER RECENT PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED
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January 2003 |
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