Marine Clastic Sedimentology, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1987 Concepts and Case Studies

Tarquin Teale, a sedimentology/stratigraphy postgraduate student at the Royal School of Mines, was killed in a road accident south of Rome on 17 October 1985. Premature death is a form of tragedy which can make havoc of the ordered progress which we try to impose on our lives. As parents, relatives and friends, we all know this, and yet somehow when it touches our own world there is no consolation to be found anywhere. In Tarquin's case the enormity of the loss felt by those of us who knew him can barely be expressed in words. Tarquin had everything which we aspire to. His fellow graduate students envied his dramatic progress in research. We his advisors, in appreciating this progress, marvelled at how refreshingly rare it was to see such precocious talent combined with such a caring, modest and well-balanced personality. He was des­ tined for the highest honours in geoscience and there is no doubt that he would have lived a life, had he been granted the chance, which would have spread colour, intellectual insight and goodness.

1 Comparing examples of modern and ancient turbidite systems: problems and concepts.- 2 Unravelling hinterland and offshore palaeogeography from deep-water arenites.- 3 An example of the use of detrital episodes in elucidating complex basin histories: the Caloveto and Longobucco Groups of North East Calabria, Southern Italy.- 4 Isolated olistoliths from the Longobucco Basin, Calabria, Southern Italy.- 5 The griestoniensis zone turbidite system, Welsh Basin.- 6 Mineralogical consequences of organic matter degradation in sediments: inorganic/organic diagenesis.- 7 Evolution of Silurian depositional systems in the Southern Uplands, Scotland.- 8 Paleo-oceanography and depositional environment of the Scandinavian alum shales: sedimentological and geochemical evidence.- 9 Understanding Jurassic organic-rich mudrocks: new concepts using gamma-ray spectrometry and palaeo-ecology: examples from the Kimmeridge Clay of Dorset and the Jet Rock of Yorkshire.- 10 Deep-marine foreland basin and forearc sedimentation: a comparative study from the lower palaeozoic Northern Appalachians, Quebec and Newfoundland.