title: Sedimentary Environments: Processes, Facies and Stratigraphy
author: Harold G. Reading
description: "...definitely one of the best summaries and best written statements on the subject available today.... Every sedimentologist, stratigrapher, sedimentary petrologist and earth resources geologist should have a copy in their personal library." (<i>Journal of Sedimentary Petrology</i>)
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  Jeanette Winterson
  
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
  
  Source note: the author referred to Robert Graves’ _The Greek Myths, Volume
  One_ and _Volume Two_ in her research for this book.
  
    
    
    
    
  
  > _For Deborah Warner, who lifted the weight._
  
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  > Sedimentary rock is formed over vast expanses of time, as layer upon layer
  > of sediment is deposited on the sea bottom.
  
  > > Being formed in this way, such rock is usually arranged in a succession of
  > horizontal bands, or strata, with the oldest strata lying at the bottom.
  
  > > Each band will often contain the fossilised remains of the plants and
  > animals that died at the time at which the sediment was originally laid
  > down.
  
  > > The strata of sedimentary rock are like the pages of a book, each with a
  > record of contemporary life written on it. Unfortunately, the record is far
  > from complete. The process of sedimentation in any one place is invariably
  > interrupted by new periods in which sediment is not laid down, or exi