A Color Atlas of Carbonate Sediments and Rocks Under the Microscope

by W.S. MacKenzie and A.E. Adams

Book Overview

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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 047023749X
• ISBN13: 9780470237496
• Release Date: May 1998
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.7" x 10.3"