Sedimentation of Organic Particles

• Part I. Introduction: 1. Sedimentation of palynomorphs and palynodebris: an introduction; Part II. Studies of Palynosedimentation in Modern Environments: A. Palynomorph sedimentation; 2. The sorting of spores and pollen by water: experimental and field evidence; 3. Transport and deposition of pollen in an estuary: signature of the landscape; 4. Pollen preservation in alkaline soils of the American Southwest; 5. Wind and water transport and sedimentation of miospores along two rivers subject to major floods and entering the Mediterranean Sea at Calvi (Corsica, France); 6. Sedimentation of land-derived palynomorphs in the Trinity-Galveston Bay area, Texas; B. Palynofacies and palynodebris sedimentation; 7. The genesis and sedimentation of phytoclasts with examples from coastal environments; 8. Palynofacies of some recent marine sediments: the role of transportation; 9. Maceral palynofacies of the Louisiana deltaic plain in terms of organic constituents and hydrocarbon potential; 10. Organic sedimentation in a carbonate region; 11. An approach to a standard terminology for palynodebris; 12. Relationships of palynofacies to coal-depositional environments of the upper Paleocene of the Gulf Coast basin, Texas, and the Powder River basin, Montana and Wyoming; Part III. Reconstruction of Late Cenozoic Vegetation and Sedimentary Environments from Palynological Data: 13. Quaternary terrestrial sediments and spatial scale: the limits to interpretation; 14. Pollen and spores in Quaternary lake sediments as sensors of vegetation composition: theoretical models and empirical evidence; 15. Paleoecological interpretation of the Trail Ridge sequence, and related deposits in Georgia and Florida, based on pollen sedimentation and clastic sedimentology; Part IV. Application of Data on Palynosedimentation to Solution of Geological Problems: A. Sedimentary cycles: 16. Polynology of sedimentary cycles; B. Sequence stratigraphy and sedimentation of organic particles; 17. Particulate organic matter, maceral facies models, and applications to sequence stratigraphy; C. Quantitative methods and applications thereof; 18. Association of palynomorphs and palynodebris with depositional environments: quantitative approaches; 19. A quantitative approach to Triassic palynology: the Lettenkeuper of the Germanic Basin as an example; 20. Palynomorph concentration in studies of Paleogene nonmarine depositional environments of Wyoming; D. Specific examples of applications; 21. Multivariate analyses of palynomorph data; 22. Relationships between depositional environments and changes in palynofloras across the K-T boundary interval; 23. Sedimentation of palynomorphs in rocks of pre-Devonian age; Part V. Appendix: modern pollen transport and sedimentation: an annotated bibliography.

'In summary, this is a very valuable volume which should be available to all palaeopalynologists.' J. E. A. Marshall, Cretaceous Research