A Color Atlas of Carbonate Sediments and Rocks Under the Microscope

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

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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...

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"

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Earth Sciences Education & Reference Geology Nature Nature & Ecology Reference Rocks & Minerals Science Science & Math Science & Scientists

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