Sedimentary rocks in the field : a color guide /
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| Lenguaje: | Español |
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London :
Elsevier,
2005.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. OVERVIEW
- Classification of sedimentary rocks
- Economic studies
- 2. FIELD TECHNIQUES. Safety in the field
- Field equipment
- General approach and field notebook
- Basic measurements and data records
- Field sketches and logs
- Paleocurrent and paleoslope analysis
- Stratigraphic procedure and way-up criteria 25 Other techniques
- 3. PRINCIPAL CHARACTERISTICS OF SEDIMENTARY ROCKS. Introduction and facies concept
- Bedding and lamination
- Field photographs 31 Erosional structures
- Field photographs
- Depositional structures
- Field photographs: parallel lamination and stratification
- Field photographs: wavy and lenticular lamination, cross-lamination and stratification
- Field photographs: graded beds and structural sequences
- Post-depositional deformation and dewatering structures
- Field photographs: slides, slumps, and chaotica
- Field photographs: deformed bedding and shale clasts
- Field photographs: water escape and desiccation structures
- Biogenic sedimentary structures
- Field photographs: bioturbation and biogenic structures
- Chemogenic sedimentary structures
- Field photographs
- Sediment texture and fabric
- Sediment composition
- Hand-lens photographs
- Fossils
- Sediment colour
- 4. CONGLOMERATES.
- Definition and range of types
- Principal sedimentary characteristics
- Classification of conglomerates
- Occurrence
- Field photographs
- 5. SANDSTONES. Definition and range of types
- Principal sedimentary characteristics
- Classification of sandstones
- Occurrence
- Field photographs
- 6. MUDROCKS. Definition and range of types
- Principal sedimentary characteristics
- Classification of mudrocks
- Occurrence
- Field photographs
- 7. CARBONATE ROCKS. Definition and range of types
- Principal sedimentary characteristics
- Classification of carbonate rocks
- Principal characteristics of dolomites
- Occurrence
- Field photographs
- 8. CHERTS AND SILICEOUS SEDIMENTS. Definition and range of types
- Principal sedimentary characteristics
- Occurrence
- Field photographs
- 9. PHOSPHORITES. Definition and range of types
- Principal sedimentary characteristics
- Occurrence
- Field photographs
- 10. COAL AND OIL.
- Definition and range of types
- Principal sedimentary characteristics
- Occurrence
- Field photographs
- 11. EVAPORITES. Definition and range of types
- Principal sedimentary characteristics
- Occurrence
- Field photographs
- 12. IRONSTONES. Definition and range of types
- Principal sedimentary characteristics
- Occurrence
- Field photographs
- 13. SOILS, PALEOSOLS, AND DURICRUSTS. Definition and range of types
- Principal sedimentary characteristics
- Field photographs
- 14. VOLCANICLASTIC SEDIMENTS. Definition and range of types
- Principal sedimentary characteristics
- Occurrence
- Field photographs
- 15. INTERPRETATIONS AND DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENTS. Building blocks
- Facies characteristics and models
- Facies sequences and cycles
- Lateral trends and geometry
- Architectural elements and facies associations
- Sequence stratigraphy and bounding surfaces
- Field photographs: cycles, geometry, and unconformities
- Sediment interpretation in cores
- Core photographs
- Controls, rates, and preservation
- Depositional environments
- Field photographs: alluvial-fluvial environments
- Field photographs: desert-eolian environments
- Field photographs: glacial environments
- Field photographs: deltaic environments
- Field photographs: volcaniclastic environments
- Field photographs: shallow marine clastic environments
- Field photographs: marine evaporites and carbonates
- Field photographs: deep marine environments.