Research Catalog

Title

Sedimentary organic matter : organic facies and palynofacies / R.V. Tyson.

Author

Tyson, R. V. (Richard V.)

Publication

London : Chapman & Hall, 1995.

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Description

xvii, 615 pages : illustrations, maps, charts; 25 cm

Subjects

• Sediments (Geology)
• Organic geochemistry

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [493]-589) and index.

Contents

• 1. Introduction: The importance of sedimentary organic matter -- 2. The nature of organic matter in sediments -- 3. Production and delivery flux of planktonic organic matter -- 4. Biological degradation and consumption of organic matter -- 5. Abundance of organic matter in sediments: TOC, hydrodynamic equivalence, dilution and flux effects -- 6. Organic matter preservation: the effects of oxygen deficiency -- 7. Origin and nature of the Phytoclast Group -- 8. Origin and nature of the Amorphous Group -- 9. Origin and nature of the Palynomorph Group, Phytoplankton Subgroup -- 10. Origin and nature of the Zoomorph Subgroup, and the origin, nature and distribution of the Zooclast Group -- 11. Distribution of the Phytoclast Group -- 12. Distribution of the Amorphous Group -- 13. Distribution of the Palynomorph Group: Sporomorph Subgroup -- 14. Distribution of the Palynomorph Group: Phytoplankton Subgroup, marine dinoflagellate cysts (dinocysts).
• 15. Distribution of the Palynomorph Group: Phytoplankton Subgroup, marine prasinophyte phycomata -- 16. Distribution of the Palynomorph Group: Phytoplankton Subgroup, chlorococcale algae -- 17. Distribution of the Palynomorph Group: Phytoplankton Subgroup, Acritarcha -- 18. Distribution of the Palynomorph Group: Phytoplankton Subgroup, cyanobacteria and Rhodophyta -- 19. Distribution of the Palynomorph Group: Zoomorph Subgroup -- 20. Palynological kerogen classification -- 21. Bulk geochemical characterization and classification of organic matter: elemental analysis and pyrolysis -- 22. Bulk geochemical characterization and classification of organic matter: carbon:nitrogen ratios and lignin-derived phenols -- 23. Bulk geochemical characterization and classification of organic matter: stable carbon isotopes [actual symbol not reproducible] -- 24. Palynofacies in a sequence stratigraphic context -- 25. Some practical aspects of palynofacies analysis.
• Appendix A Density of particulate organic matter and kerogen and some associated materials -- Appendix B Isotopic composition [actual symbol not reproducible] of organic matter and the organic fraction of some Recent and ancient sediments -- Appendix C Carbon:nitrogen weight ratios of organic matter and some Recent and ancient sediments -- Appendix D Prasinophyte occurrences in dysoxic-anoxic facies of Silurian to Quaternary age (in stratigraphic order).

ISBN

041236350X

OCLC

ocm31894043

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Columbia University Libraries