Sedimentary rocks in the field : a color guide /
"Ideas and concepts in sedimentology are changing rapidly, but field work and data collection remain the basis of the science. This book is intended as a guide to the recognition and description of sedimentary rocks in the field. It aims to help students and professional geologists know what to...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Burlington, MA :
Elsevier Academic Press,
2005.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Overview
- Field techniques
- Principal characteristics of sedimentary rocks
- Conglomerates
- Sandstones
- Mudrocks
- Carbonate rocks
- Cherts and siliceous sediments
- Phosphorites
- Coal and oiil
- Evaporites
- Ironstones
- Soils, paleosols, and duricrusts
- Volcaniclastic sediments
- Interpretations and depositional environments.