This fully revised and updated edition introduces the reader to sedimentology and stratigraphic principles, and provides tools for the interpretation of sediments and sedimentary rocks. The processes of formation, transport and deposition of sediment are considered and then applied to develop conceptual models for the full range of sedimentary environments, from deserts to deep seas and reefs to rivers. · Introduction: sedimentology and stratigraphy. · Terrigenous clastic sediments: gravel, sand and mud. · Biogenic, chemical and volcanogenic sediments. · Processes of transport and sedimentary structures. · Field sedimentology, facies and environments. · Continents: sources of sediment. · Glacial environments. · Aeolian processes. · Rivers and alluvial fans. · Lakes. · The marine realm: morphology and processes. · Deltas. · Clastic coasts and estuaries. · Shallow sandy seas. · Shallow marine carbonate and evaporite environments. · Deep marine environments. · Volcanic environments. · Post-depositional structures and diagenesis. · Stratigraphy: concepts and lithostratigraphy. · Biostratigraphy. · Dating and correlation techniques. · Subsurface stratigraphy and sedimentology. · Sequence stratigraphy and sea level changes. · Sedimentary basins.