Sedimentology of Shale
Study Guide and Reference Source
Published on 21. February 1984
Book
Hardback
310 pages
978-0-387-90430-6 (ISBN)
Description
We wrote Sedimentology of Shale primarily because we lacked a handy, reasonably comprehensive source of information and ideas about shales for students in our sedimentology program. It was also our feeling that the time for shales to receive more study had finally arrived. Sedimentology of Shale also seems very timely because today more sedimentologists are interested in shales. Certainly in the last five years the pace of shale research has no ticeably quickened because the role of shales as important sources of oil, gas, heavy metals and as a long understudied part of the earth's geologic his tory has been recognized. Noteworthy developments include the elucida tion of the importance of trace fossils in shales, the discovery of thick sequences of overpressured shales in regions such as the Gulf Coast (which have important implications for hydrocarbon migration and faulting), the ex tension of the principles of metamorphic facies to the realm of low tempera ture diagenesis by study of the organic matter in shales, and shales as ul timate sources for mineral deposits. Accordingly, we decided it was timely to write a book on shales. In one respect, however, ours is an unusual book. Most books in geology are produced after one or two decades of progress have been made in a field and attempt to summarize and evaluate that progress.
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Paul E. Potter | J. Barry Maynard | Wayne A. Pryor
Sedimentology of Shale
Study Guide and Reference Source
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12/2011
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Content
1 Overview.- Sources of Mud.- Suspension, Transportation, Deposition, and Erosion.- Definition and Classification.- Sedimentary Structures.- Types and Significance of Sedimentary Structures in Shales.- Primary Structures.- Compactional and Deformational Structures.- Diagenetic Structures.- Enhancement of Sedimentary Structures.- Shales and Organisms.- Mineralogy and Geochemistry.- Minerals in Shales.- Inorganic Geochemistry.- Organic Geochemistry.- Color.- Compaction.- Occurrence and Characteristics of Mud in Modern Environments.- Paleocurrents in Shaly Basins.- Shale in Ancient Basins.- Generalizations about Ancient Shales.- Discussion and Examples.- 2 Question Set.- Describing Outcrops and Cores and Using Wire-Line Logs.- Laboratory Studies.- Making a Synthesis: Depositional Environment and Basin Analysis.- References.- 3 Annotated and Illustrated Bibliography.- Books.- Classics.- Classification.- Transport and Erosion.- Deposition of Modern Muds.- Mineralogy.- Geochemistry.- Petrology.- Paleontology and Paleoecology.- Shales in Ancient Basins.- Burial History.- Compaction and Structure.- Diagenesis.- Thermal History.- Shale Through Time.- Economic Geology.- Petroleum and Bituminous Shales.- Shales as Industrial Minerals.- Shales as Hosts for Metallic Minerals.- Environmental and Engineering Geology.- Author Index.- Index of Stratigraphic Units.