INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1.PHYSICAL SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURES Current Structures Ripples Scour marks Tool marks Other surface marks Bedding Imbricated structures Penecontemporaneous Deformation Structures Load structures Ball-and-pillow structures Slump structures Ejected structures Clastic dykes Convolute bedding Dish structures Pit and mound structures Exposed Structures Raindrop imprints and hailstone imprints Mud cracks CHAPTER 2.CHEMICAL SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURES Crystallization Structures Crystal imprints and casts Birdseye structures Geopetal structures Pressure-Solution Structures Stylolites Cone-in-cone structures Accretion Structures Concretions and nodules Cluster structures CHAPTER 3.BIOGENIC SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURES Lebensspuren Tracks Trails Resting traces Burrows Borings Bioturbation Structures Biogrowing Structures Root and Rootlet Traces CHAPTER 4.DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENTS AS INTERPRETED FROM SEQUENCES OF PRIMARY SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURES Sequence of Primary Structures in Alluvial Fan Deposits Sequence of Primary Structures in Fluvial Deposits Sequence of primary structures in meandering river deposits Sequence of primary structures in braided river deposits Sequence of Primary Structures in Deltaic Deposits Sequence of Primary Structures in Coast-Shelf Deposits Sequence of Primary Structures in Tidal Flat Deposits Sequence of Primary Structures in Turbidite Deposits Sequence of Primary Structures in Near-shore Subaqueous Fan Deposits References Subject Index