Research Catalog

Title

Mud and mudstones : introduction and overview / P.E. Potter, J.B. Maynard, P.J. Depetris.

Author

Potter, Paul Edwin

Publication

Berlin ; New York : Springer, c2005.

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Additional Authors

• Maynard, J. Barry
• Depetris, P. J.
• Depetris, P. J. (Pedro J.)

Description

xi, 297 p. : ill., maps; 28 cm.

Summary

"This book provides the first elementary overview of mud and mudstone written for a broad spectrum of professionals, teachers and students in geology, petroleum geology and engineering, urban planning and development, paleontology and paleoecology, and architecture and archaeology."--Jacket.

Alternative Title

Mud & mudstones

Subject

• Mud
• Mudstone
• Sediments (Geology)
• Sedimentary rocks
• Geology
• Paleontology
• Sedimentology
• Geosciences
• Sedimentary rocks

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Overview -- 2. Production of mud and silt -- 3. Transport and deposition -- 4. Role of oxygen -- 5. Muddy depositional systems -- 6. Burial -- 7. Provenance of mudstones -- 8. Muddy basins -- 9. Practicalities -- App. A.1. Field and core description -- App. A.2. Terminology -- App. A.3. Clay minerals -- App. A.4. Soils and paleosols -- App. A.5. Petrographic study -- App. A.6. Organic matter -- App. A.7. Isotopes : the stable isotopes of C, O, H, S, and N.

ISBN

3540221573 (hbk.)

OCLC

• 56697110
• SCSB-10146998

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library