"The sedimentary record on Earth stretches back more than 4.3 billion years and is present in more abbreviated forms on companion planets of the Solar System, like Mars and Venus, and doubtless elsewhere"--

Leeder (emeritus, sedimentology, U. of Durham, Britain) offers a textbook for students who have completed introductory courses in general geology, earth or environmental sciences, and perhaps basic sedimentology or sedimentary geology. He covers making sediments, moving fluid, transporting sediment, major external controls on sedimentation and sedimentary environments, continental and marine sedimentary environments, the architecture of sedimentary basics, and sediment solutions to interdisciplinary problems. The first edition was published by Blackwood Science in 1999, before Wiley acquired it, as a replacement for Leeder's 1982 text Annotation 2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)