Paleoenvironment indicators

This book applies step by step the classical principles and methodology of determining paleoenvironment of deposits or sedimentary outcrops. The unique approach and style of presentation makes the principles easy to apply. It observes sedimentary structures textural features and morphometric characters of seven outcrops exposure of a sandstone Formation (Lokoja Sandstone Bida basin Nigeria) and reconstruct them to arrive at environment of deposition. Among the principles applied in this book includes Walther’s law of facies succession (applied to reconstruct the sedimentary facies) the statistical principles after Folk and Ward 1957 Friedman 1967 Miola and Weiser 1968 Sahu 1968 Visher 1969 and Salley 1985 and the morphometric principles after Sneed and Folk 1958 Lutig 1962 Dobklins and Folk 1970 and Stratten 1973. Besides trace fossils characteristic within the Formation were identified and integrated with other principles to arrive at the environment of deposition.