[PDF] A Color Guide To The Petrography Of Sandstones Siltstones Shales And Associated Rocks eBook

Author : Swapan Kumar Haldar
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 42,28 MB
Release : 2020-07-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 0323851363

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Introduction to Mineralogy and Petrology, second edition, presents the essentials of both disciplines through an approach accessible to industry professionals, academic researchers, and students alike. This new edition emphasizes the relationship between rocks and minerals, right from the structures created during rock formation through the economics of mineral deposits. While petrology is classified on the lines of geological evolution and rock formation, mineralogy speaks to the physical and chemical properties, uses, and global occurrences for each mineral, emphasizing the need for the growth of human development. The primary goal is for the reader to identify minerals in all respects, including host-rocks, and mineral deposits, with additional knowledge of mineral-exploration, resource, extraction, process, and ultimate use. To help provide a comprehensive analysis across ethical and socio-economic dimensions, a separate chapter describes the hazards associated with minerals, rocks, and mineral industries, and the consequences to humanity along with remedies and case studies. New to the second edition: includes coverage of minerals and petrology in extra-terrestrial environments as well as case studies on the hazards of the mining industry. Addresses the full scope of core concepts of mineralogy and petrology, including crystal structure, formation and grouping of minerals and soils, definition, origin, structure and classification of igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks Features more than 250 figures, illustrations and color photographs to vividly explore the fundamental principles of mineralogy and petrology Offers a holistic approach to both subjects, beginning with the formation of geologic structures that is followed by the hosting of mineral deposits and the exploration and extraction of lucrative, usable products that improve the health of global economies Includes new content on minerals and petrology in extraterrestrial environments and case studies on hazards in the mining industry

Author : Peter A. Scholle
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 42,18 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Formations (Geology)
ISBN :

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This book is a compilation of images that demonstrate important grains, cements, and porosity types for geologists who may not be specialists in the petrography of sandstones and associated sedimentary rocks.

Author : Sam Boggs
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 611 pages
File Size : 16,97 MB
Release : 2009-02-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521897165

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Advanced textbook outlining the physical, chemical, and biological properties of sedimentary rocks through petrographic microscopy, geochemical techniques, and field study.

Author : A.E. Adams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 10,36 MB
Release : 2017-09-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 1317885287

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Provides a very clear guide to sedimentary rock types as seen under the microscope supported by practical aspects of slide preparation.

Author : F. J. Pettijohn
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 16,95 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 1461210666

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The first edition appeared fourteen years ago. Since then there have been significant advances in our science that warrant an updating and revision of Sand and Sandstone. The main framework of the first edition has been retained so that the reader can begin with the mineralogy and textural properties of sands and sandstones, progress through their organization and classification and their study as a body of rock, to consideration of their origin-prove nance, transportation, deposition, and lithification-and finally to their place in the stratigraphic column and the basin. The last decade has seen the rise of facies analysis based on a closer look at the stratigraphic record and the recognition of characteristic bed ding sequences that are the signatures of some geologic process-such as a prograding shallow-water delta or the migration of a point bar on an alluvial floodplain. The environment of sand deposition is more closely determined by its place in such depositional systems than by criteria based on textural characteristics-the "fingerprint" approach. Our revi sion reflects this change in thinking. As in the geological sciences as a whole, the concept of plate tectonics has required a rethinking of our older ideas about the origin and accumu lation of sediments-especially the nature of the sedimentary basins.