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Origin of sedimentary rocks

Title
Origin of sedimentary rocks / Harvey Blatt, Gerard Middleton, Raymond Murray.
Author
Blatt, Harvey.
Publication
Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, [1972]

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Additional Authors
  • Middleton, Gerard V.
  • Murray, Raymond C.
Description
xix, 634 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
Advanced undergraduates or beginning graduate level.
Subject
  • Blatt Harvey
  • Sedimentary rocks
  • Sedimentary rocks
  • Sediment
  • Roches sédimentaires
  • Structures sédimentaires
  • Sédimentation (géologie) > Transport
  • Roches carbonatées
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographies.
Contents
PHYSICS OF SEDIMENTARY PROCESSES: The geologic cycle -- Sedimentary textures -- Sediment movement by fluid flow -- Sedimentary structures -- Facies models -- TERRIGENOUS CLASTIC SEDIMENTS: Weathering processes and products -- Mineral composition of clastic silicate rocks -- Classification of sandstones -- Natural waters and diagenesis of sandstones -- Mudrocks -- CARBONATE ROCKS AND EVAPORITES: Origin of limestones -- Diagenesis and classification of limestones -- Dolomite -- Evaporites and native sulfur -- Mudrocks -- CARBONATE ROCKS AND EVAPORITES: Origin of limestones -- Diagenesis and classification of limestones -- Dolomite -- Evaporites and native sulfur -- OTHER SEDIMENTARY ROCKS: Chert -- Phosphates -- Zeolites -- Iron-rich rocks and sedimentary manganese deposits.
ISBN
  • 0136427022
  • 9780136427025
LCCN
71037405
OCLC
  • ocm00350849
  • 350849
  • SCSB-289274
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library