Sedimentology includes the five fundamental processes defined by the term sediaentation --weathering, erosion, transportation, deposition and diagenesis. Sedimentology shares with geomorphology the study of the surface features of the earth.

What does a Sedimentologist learn about sediments?

The aim of sedimentology, studying sediments, is to derive information on the depositional conditions which acted to deposit the rock unit, and the relation of the individual rock units in a basin into a coherent understanding of the evolution of the sedimentary sequences and basins, and thus, the Earth's geological ...

Why do geologists study sedimentary rocks?

Geologists use their understanding of sedimentary rock to do more than reconstruct the history of the Earth's surface. ... It's a unique record of changing conditions as the Earth's surface through time and a storehouse of information about the mountains and the source rocks that provided sediments themselves.