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Geologists are mainly concerned with the study of the lithosphere. The sedimentary and metasedimentary rocks, although they constitute only 5% of the lithosphere by volume, they occupy 75% of the exposed land area (Pettijohn 1957). Thus, the study of sedimentary rocks is the major problem of geology. An obvious question arises in the study of sedimentary rocks: Under what conditions and by which processes were the sedimentary rocks in question deposited.
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Reineck, HE., Singh, I.B. (1980). Introduction. In: Depositional Sedimentary Environments. Springer Study Edition. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-81498-3_1
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