A Color Guide to the Petrography of Carbonate Rocks: Grains, Textures, Porosity, Diagenesis (AAPG Memoir) (Aapg Memoir)

A Color Guide to the Petrography of Carbonate Rocks: Grains, Textures, Porosity, Diagenesis (AAPG Memoir) (Aapg Memoir)

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Manufacturer: American Association of Petroleum Geologists
Author: Peter A. Scholle
Binding: Hardcover
Publication Date: 2003-11-01
Publisher: American Association of Petroleum Geologists
Label: American Association of Petroleum Geologists
Number Of Pages: 474
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Editorial Review:
This volume expands and improves the AAPG 1978 classic, A Color Illustrated Guide to Carbonate Rock Constituents, Textures, Cements, and Porosities (AAPG Memoir 27). Carbonate petrography can be quite complicated. Changing assemblages of organisms through time, coupled with the randomness of thin-section cuts through complex shell forms, add to the difficulty of identifying skeletal grains. Furthermore, because many primary carbonate grains are composed of unstable minerals (especially aragonite and high-Mg calcite), diagenetic alteration commonly is quite extensive in carbonate rocks. The variability of inorganic and biogenic carbonate mineralogy through time, however, complicates prediction of patterns of diagenetic alteration.

This book is designed to help deal with such challenges. It includes a wide variety of examples of commonly encountered skeletal and nonskeletal grains, cements, fabrics, and porosity types. It includes extensive new tables of age distributions, mineralogy, morphologic characteristics, environmental implications and keys to grain identification. It also encompasses a number of noncarbonate grains, that occur as accessory minerals in carbonate rocks or that may provide important biostratigraphic or paleoenvironmental information in carbonate strata. With this guide, students and other workers with little formal petrographic training should be able to examine thin sections or acetate peels under the microscope and interpret the main rock constituents and their depositional and diagenetic history.
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Outstanding! Best carbonate petrography book out there!!

2006-06-28
Every carbonate petrographer should have this book. I use it on a daily basis, it's litarally attached to my hip. gives outstanding thin section examples from the non-skeletal/skeletal grains all the way up to diagenetic features and textures. I recommend this book to beginners and experienced petrographers.

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