History of sedimentological research on clastic sediments with remarks on history of Russian sedimentology

sedimentologists are chronologized from Steno ( ) to Vail ( ) who greatly contributed to the development The book of an internationally famous Japanese Pro-of sedimentology.The major events, among which are fessor of sedimentology Hakuyu Okada "The Evolution the Challenger expedition ( ) ; the Journal Seof Clastic Sedimentology" written with Prof. Alec J.diment.Petrology ( ) first publication ; the First In-Kenyon-Smith, published through Dunedin Academic ternational congress of sedimentologists ( ) ; Deep-Press, Edinburgh, in , is an epoch-making event in Sea Drilling Project started in , and others, are the history of geology.described in this chapter.All of these events reveal the The book is unique both in its contents and a rather strong influence upon the formation of such fields of original manner of writing.A gallery of the portraits of sedimentology as sedimentary petrology, facies analysis, the outstanding scientists-founders of the key trends in basin analysis, sequence stratigraphy, and others.sedimentology decorates without doubt the book and In the authors describe a broad impact of brightens up the description of the fundamentals of sedi-sedimentology on such geological sciences as volcanology, mentology.petrology, marine geology, mineralogy, geomorphology, The book is written in living and clear language.Of as well as on applied fields such as ecology, geotechnolspecial value are comments by Prof. H. Okada, an emi-ogy, civil engineering geology, soil sciences.nent sedimentologist, who studied a wide range of deposi-in a rather original way traces step-by-step tional environments in di erent parts of our planet and the development of geology and stratigraphy during the who has tremendous international experiences in com-"pre-sedimentological" period.The authors lead a reader parative analysis.The book is of great interest both for through a gallery of portraits of the founders of geology mature researchers and younger geologists who will find created its first laws : N. Steno, A. G. Werner, R. Jammuch of value from this book.son, and J. Hutton.This chapter considers the first ob-The book is arranged in nine chapters, including an servations on the order of succession of strata, geological impressive and voluminous List of References, Index of time, and the first lithologic column of the Paleogene Names and Index of Subjects.described by G. Cuvier in collaboration with a paleobotanist A. Brongiart in the Paris Basin.It was then that it was noted that alternation of strata is influenced by is the Introduction.It gives the definition of environmental changes and these were called revolutionsedimentology and research methods summarized in Ta-ary changes.Working almost at the same time as Cuvie ble.The evolution of the sedimentology is vividly illus-and Brongniart, W. Smith published in a coloured trated by a scheme in which the names of the scientists-geological map of England.This is one of the very first geological maps.It is illustrated in the book.In the early eighteenth century geology was rapidly developing.In J. Hutton published his first book "Theory of the Earth".Subsequently, Charles Lyell developed the J. Huttonnian theory into a fundamental