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Basin Analysis and the Sedimentary Model up to 1963

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Paleocurrents and Basin Analysis

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Geologists have not been content just to observe and describe. They have concurrently attempted to collate their observations, to formulate general principles or laws, and to build more comprehensive theories. Students of sedimentary deposits are no exception. The first efforts at interpretation of sediments were directed toward reconstruction of the environment of deposition at a particular time and place. With ever-widening comprehension, the efforts at interpretation have been extended to embrace longer periods of time and to include, at last, the whole basin in which the sediments in question were deposited. Consideration of the basin as a whole provides a truly unified approach to the study of sediments.

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  1. Department of Geology, University of Cincinnati, Old Tech Building, Cincinnati, OH, 45221, USA

    Prof. Paul Edwin Potter

  2. Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 21218, USA

    Prof. Francis J Pettijohn

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Potter, P.E., Pettijohn, F.J. (1977). Basin Analysis and the Sedimentary Model up to 1963. In: Paleocurrents and Basin Analysis. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-61887-1_16

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