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Carbonate Sediments and Rocks Under the Microscope: A Colour Atlas

Carbonate Sediments and Rocks Under the Microscope: A Colour Atlas

MacKenzie, W. S.
Adams, Anthony

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ISBN10: 1874545847
ISBN13: 9781874545842
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: Apr 1 1998
Pages: 180
Weight: 1.25
Height: 0.40 Width: 7.60 Depth: 10.20
Language: English

More than half of the world's petroleum is to be 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 which have contributed to carbonate sedimentation, and in part to a wide variety of diagenetic processes which 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 colour a range of features not attempted in any general textbook, is designed as a laboratory manual to keep beside the microscope, as an aid to identifying grain types and textures in carbonates. It appeals alike to undergraduate and graduate students and to professionals in teaching institutions, research laboratories and industry.

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