1st Edition

Carbonate Sediments and Rocks Under the Microscope A Colour Atlas

By Anthony Adams, W.S. MacKenzie Copyright 1998
    184 Pages 330 Color Illustrations
    by CRC Press

    184 Pages
    by CRC Press

    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.

    Introduction

    Staining
    Coated Grains:
    Definitions
    Ooids
    Pisoids
    Oncoids
    Other Coated Grains

    Peloids, Aggregate Grains, Intraclasts & Lithoclasts. Bioclasts:
    Introduction
    Bivalves
    Gastropods
    Cephalopods
    Brachiopods
    Corals
    Stromatoporoids
    Sponges
    Bryozoans
    Foraminifera
    Echinoderms
    Calcareous Algae
    Trilobites
    Ostracods
    Worm Tubes and Vermiforms
    Tentaculites
    Tintinnids
    Radiolarians
    Microbial Structures

    Diagenesis:
    Introduction
    Micritization
    Pedogenic Features
    Cementation
    Compaction & Tectonic Features
    Neomorphism
    Microspar & Pseudospar
    Dolomites
    Dedolomites
    Silica
    Evaporite & Pyrite Cements and Replacement
    Porosity
    Limestone Classification
    Cathodoluminescence

    Biography

    Anthony E. Adams, Senior Lecturer in Geology, University of Manchester, England. W. S. MacKenzie, Emeritus Professor of Petrology, University of Manchester, England.

    The quality of colour illustrations is of the highest standard. The images are sharp, and the colour reproduction is excellent
    Min Mag

    ...it behooves even the veteran petrologist to have access to this new publication by Adams and MacKenzie.
    American Mineralogist

    An immensely useful book. It is the next best thing to being lead through a collection of slides by an experienced tutor... It will appeal to geologists at every level...Unlike many books written to be kept by the microscope, it opens flat.
    Microscopy & Imaging News