sedimentologyn.

1932 H. Wadell in Science 1 Jan. 20/2 Sedimentology is here suggested as a term for the subject taught, retaining sedimentation for the act or process of deposition. The new term and its derivatives sedimentologist, sedimentologic and sedimentological will tend towards clearness.

1958 Times 22 Mar. 8/3 Mr R. J. L. Allen..has been appointed George Martin Lees Research Fellow in Sedimentology.

1967 New Scientist 20 July 146/1 A number of grants for further research into sedimentology have been made to the University of Reading.

1973 Nature 8 June 342/1 Their [sc. marine grasses'] former presence can nevertheless be deduced by sedimentology and palaeontology.

1957 Jrnl. Geol. (Chicago) 65 485/1 It might be possible to subdivide further the material in this core from a sedimentological point of view into two components: (1) material of sand size.., and (2) lutite.

1970 Nature 2 May 425 Sedimentological studies of depositional environments of the modern Omo River delta and floodplain.

1966 Palaeogeogr., Palaeoclimatol., Palaeoecol. 2 113 The ironstones..mark, sedimentologically, a complete reversal of the trend towards increasing oxygenation.

1961 Jrnl. Sedimentary Petrol. 31 207/1 The expression of kurtosis has not been used extensively by sedimentologists.

1977 A. Hallam Planet Earth 245/1 The paleoecologist has to be paleobiologist, sedimentologist and biologist.