A Color Atlas of Carbonate Sediments and Rocks Under the Microscope
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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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Illustrates in full color a range of features not attempted in any general textbook. Designed as a laboratory manual to keep beside the microscope, and as an aid to identifying grain types and textures in carbonates. Paper.
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A Color Atlas of Carbonate Sediments and Rocks Under the Microscope
A Color Atlas of Carbonate Sediments and Rocks Under the Microscope,A. E. Adams,W. S. MacKenzie,John Wiley & Sons,0470296224,Earth Sciences - Geology,Nature,Nature / Field Guide Books,Pictorial works,Rocks & Minerals,Rocks, Carbonate,Science/Mathematics,Thin sections (Geology),Science / Earth Sciences
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