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A 200page syllabus was prepared for the second conference and published by the Indiana Geological Survey. Continuing interest in and demand for the syllabus prompted us to update and expand its contents. The result is this book.We hope this work will be useful as a text or supplementary text for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in sedimentation, sedimentary petrology, or general petrology and perhaps will be helpful to the teachers of such courses. Though we have focussed on sandstones we have necessarily included much of interest to students of all sediments. We hope also that it will be a useful reference work for the professional geologist, especially those concerned with petroleum, ground-water, and economic geology either in industry or government. Because the subject is so closely tied to surface processes it may also be of interest to geomorphologists and engineers who deal with beaches and rivers where sand is in transit.This work presupposes a general knowledge of the elements of mineralogy, chemistry and statistics on the part of the reader. As no investigation of sediments -especially sandstones -can be considered adequate or complete without careful microscopical analysis, we also presume, therefore, that the user of this book has the knowledge and skills needed to study sands and sandstones under the microscope.

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