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Evaporites A Geological Compendium /

The monograph offers a comprehensive discussion of the role of evaporites in hydrocarbon generation and trapping, and new information on low temperature and high temperature ores. It also provides a wealth of information on exploitable salts, in a comprehensive volume has been assembled and organize...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Warren, John K. (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
Edición:2nd ed. 2016.
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Interpreting evaporite textures
  • Depositional chemistry and hydrology
  • Sabkhas, saline mudflats and pans
  • Subaqueous salts: salinas and perennial lakes
  • Ancient basins and stratigraphic evolution
  • Flowing salt: Halokinesis
  • Pointers to vanished evaporites: Karst, breccia, nodules and cement
  • Hypersaline fluid evolution during burial and uplift
  • Halotolerant life in feast or famine (a source of hydrocarbons and a fixer of metals)
  • Hydrocarbons and evaporites
  • Potash resources: Occurrences and controls
  • Non-Potash Salts: Borates, Na-sulphates, Na-carbonate, lithium salts, gypsum, halite and zeolites
  • Solution mining and salt cavern usage
  • Meta-evaporites
  • Lower temperature metals in evaporitic frameworks
  • Magma-evaporite-hydrothermal metal associations.