Philip A. Allen is Emeritus Professor of Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, and a process-oriented Earth scientist with particular interests in the interactions and feedbacks between the solid Earth and its 'exosphere' through the critical interface of the Earth's surface. He has received both the Royal Society's Wolfson Research Merit Award for 2006–2011 and the Lyell Medal from the Geological Society of London in 2007. He served on the Council of the Geological Society 2008–2012 and was Secretary of the Science Committee from 2009 to 2012.

• Preface; Part I. A Global View of Sediment Routing Systems: 1. Sediment routing systems: first concepts; 2. The global character of river basins; 3. Global biogeochemical cycles; Part II. The Segments of Sediment Routing Systems: 4. The catchment-fluvial segment; 5. The continental shelf segment; 6. The deep marine segment; Part III. The Functioning of Sediment Routing Systems: 7. Denudation and sedimentation; 8. Dynamics of sediment routing systems; Part IV. The Stratigraphic Record of Sediment Routing Systems: 9. Sediment production, evolution and provenance; 10. Sediment routing systems and sequence stratigraphy; References; Index.

'In this new book, Philip A. Allen has distilled a lifetime of insightful study of the Earth's surface into a wide ranging and rigorous synthesis of planetary sediment processes. Sediment Routing Systems is the first to use the idea of global sediment routing - 'following the sediment' - to provide a framework for synthesis across environments and scales, to integrate the source and sink sides of the routing system, and to link geochemical and particulate fluxes. It manages to do this in a quantitative framework that is carefully formulated, accessible, and perfectly pitched in clarity and detail. Sediment Routing Systems is a landmark and masterpiece; for many Earth scientists, it will be all they need in terms of global sediment dynamics.' Chris Paola, University of Minnesota

Philip A. Allen is Emeritus Professor of Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, and a process-oriented Earth scientist with particular interests in the interactions and feedbacks between the solid Earth and its 'exosphere' through the critical interface of the Earth's surface. He has received both the Royal Society's Wolfson Research Merit Award for 2006–2011 and the Lyell Medal from the Geological Society of London in 2007. He served on the Council of the Geological Society 2008–2012 and was Secretary of the Science Committee from 2009 to 2012.

• Preface; Part I. A Global View of Sediment Routing Systems: 1. Sediment routing systems: first concepts; 2. The global character of river basins; 3. Global biogeochemical cycles; Part II. The Segments of Sediment Routing Systems: 4. The catchment-fluvial segment; 5. The continental shelf segment; 6. The deep marine segment; Part III. The Functioning of Sediment Routing Systems: 7. Denudation and sedimentation; 8. Dynamics of sediment routing systems; Part IV. The Stratigraphic Record of Sediment Routing Systems: 9. Sediment production, evolution and provenance; 10. Sediment routing systems and sequence stratigraphy; References; Index.

'In this new book, Philip A. Allen has distilled a lifetime of insightful study of the Earth's surface into a wide ranging and rigorous synthesis of planetary sediment processes. Sediment Routing Systems is the first to use the idea of global sediment routing - 'following the sediment' - to provide a framework for synthesis across environments and scales, to integrate the source and sink sides of the routing system, and to link geochemical and particulate fluxes. It manages to do this in a quantitative framework that is carefully formulated, accessible, and perfectly pitched in clarity and detail. Sediment Routing Systems is a landmark and masterpiece; for many Earth scientists, it will be all they need in terms of global sediment dynamics.' Chris Paola, University of Minnesota

Philip A. Allen is Emeritus Professor of Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, and a process-oriented Earth scientist with particular interests in the interactions and feedbacks between the solid Earth and its 'exosphere' through the critical interface of the Earth's surface. He has received both the Royal Society's Wolfson Research Merit Award for 2006–2011 and the Lyell Medal from the Geological Society of London in 2007. He served on the Council of the Geological Society 2008–2012 and was Secretary of the Science Committee from 2009 to 2012.

• Preface; Part I. A Global View of Sediment Routing Systems: 1. Sediment routing systems: first concepts; 2. The global character of river basins; 3. Global biogeochemical cycles; Part II. The Segments of Sediment Routing Systems: 4. The catchment-fluvial segment; 5. The continental shelf segment; 6. The deep marine segment; Part III. The Functioning of Sediment Routing Systems: 7. Denudation and sedimentation; 8. Dynamics of sediment routing systems; Part IV. The Stratigraphic Record of Sediment Routing Systems: 9. Sediment production, evolution and provenance; 10. Sediment routing systems and sequence stratigraphy; References; Index.

'In this new book, Philip A. Allen has distilled a lifetime of insightful study of the Earth's surface into a wide ranging and rigorous synthesis of planetary sediment processes. Sediment Routing Systems is the first to use the idea of global sediment routing - 'following the sediment' - to provide a framework for synthesis across environments and scales, to integrate the source and sink sides of the routing system, and to link geochemical and particulate fluxes. It manages to do this in a quantitative framework that is carefully formulated, accessible, and perfectly pitched in clarity and detail. Sediment Routing Systems is a landmark and masterpiece; for many Earth scientists, it will be all they need in terms of global sediment dynamics.' Chris Paola, University of Minnesota