中国沉积学研究的现状和发展方向

我国沉积学研究已经不再固守传统的沉积岩石学，而是不断地开拓新的学科生长点，倡导沉积岩石学与其他多学科相互交叉、相互渗透，重点深化层序地层学、储层沉积学、造山带沉积学和沉积盆地分析等方面的研究，进一步开拓环境沉积学、大陆动力沉积学和全球变化沉积学等分支学科。沉积学的第一个研究领域都与社会发展密切相关，因此，可以预期，２１世纪的沉积地质学将会再闪进入繁盛时期。

CURRENT STATUS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS OF SEDIMENTOLOGY IN CHINA

The study of sedimentology in China is no longer fixed on traditional sedimentary petrology. New disciplines growing upon sedimentology are being unceasingly explored. Approaches integrating sedimentology and other disciplines are rigorously promoted, with special emphasis given to the studies of sequence stratigraphy, reservoir sedimentology, orogenic sedimentology, and sedimentary basin analysis. Branches of sedimentology, such as environmental sedimentology, continental dynamic sedimentology and global-change sedimentology, are further developing. As each of the areas of sedimentology study is so closely related to social and economic development, it is expected that sedimentology will flourish again in the 21th century.