Colour Atlas of Carbonate Sediments and Rocks Under the Microscope
Wiley (Publisher)
Published on 7. May 1998
Book
Hardback
184 pages
978-0-470-29622-6 (ISBN)
Description
More than half of the world's petroleum is found in carbonate rocks - for example, in the Middle East, the former USSR and in North America. These rocks show a bewildering diversity of grains and textures, due in part to the wealth of different fossil organisms that have contributed to carbonate sedimentation, and in part to a wide variety of diagenetic processes that can radically modify textures and obscure the depositional fabric. Careful petrographic study with a polarising microscope is a key element of any study of carbonate sediments - as a companion to field or core logging and as a necessary precursor to geochemical analysis. This atlas, which illustrates in full color a range of features not attempted in any general textbook, is designed as a laboratory manual to keep beside the microscope, and as an aid to identifying grain types and textures in carbonates. It will appeal alike to under-graduate and graduate students and to professionals in teaching institutions, research laboratories and industry. A Color Atlas of Rocks and Minerals in Thin Section - W. S. MacKenzie and A. E. Adams
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 270 mm
Width: 200 mm
Weight
794 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-470-29622-6 (9780470296226)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
Coated Grains. Peloids, Aggregate Grains, Intraclasts and Lithoclasts. Bioclasts. Diagenesis. Porosity. Limestone Classfication. Cathodoluminescence. Bibliography. Index.