| A Color Atlas of Carbonate Sediments and Rocks Under the Microscope Revised Edition Contributor(s): Adams, A. E. (Author), MacKenzie, W. S. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0470296224 ISBN-13: 9780470296226 Publisher: Wiley OUR PRICE: $202.30 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 1998 Annotation: 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 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Earth Sciences - Geology - Nature | Rocks & Minerals |
| Dewey: 552.58 |
| LCCN: 98171235 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 7.56" W x 10.52" (1.67 lbs) 192 pages |
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| Publisher 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 |