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Atlas of Sand Grain Surface Textures and Applications [Hardcover]

William Mahaney (Author)

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Publication Date: November 28, 2002 | ISBN-10: 0195138120 | ISBN-13: 978-0195138122

This volume reviews the microtextural literature of the last twenty-five years since the publication of Sand Grain Surface Texures by D.H. Krinsley and J. Doornkamp, in 1973, which inaugurated the use of the SEM in sedimentology. For over four decades, the SEM has proved itself to be the instrument of choice in the analysis of microstructures, whether they be mineral collages or intergrowths, whole grain or partial grain microfeatures including microtextures, dissolution characteristics and/or precipitates-coatings of various thicknesses and compositions. Its high resolution stereo imagery, coupled with energy dispersive spectrometry, provides a level of compositional analysis that far exceeds the traditional light microscope. With magnifications from 25 to 100,000X, virtually the surface of any molecular structure can be seen and studied from microphotographs or electronic imagery together with printouts from an interlinked energy dispersive spectrometer (EDS). Offering an expanded list of microtextures, new interpretations of them and an assessment of how they may be used to discriminate sedimentary environments, this volume builds on the original "Atlas" and the work of practitioners worldwide. Including engineering tests designed to reproduce "glacial grains" under controlled conditions in the laboratory, new information on microtextures of heavy minerals, applications in the earth, forensic, archaeologic, and nutrition sciences, together with the use of the secondary and CL modes of the SEM, this book is a state-of-the-art presentation of where sand grain microfeature analysis lies at present and where it intends to go in the future.

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William Mahaney, Professor of Geography, York University.

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Hardcover: 256 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (November 28, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0195138120
ISBN-13: 978-0195138122
Product Dimensions: 10 x 7 x 0.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
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The SEM atlas of Krinsley & Doornkamp (1973), which introduced the subject of sand grain surface microtextures to sedimentology using electron microscopy, has been widely used by a number of researchers since the late 1970s. Read the first page

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percussion cracks, preweathered surface, surface microtextures, sand grain surface textures, subparallel fractures, percussion scars, gorge samples, source rock release, glacial crushing, rolled quartz, upturned plates, abraded quartz, bedrock release, crushing features, fresh fracture face, fluvial grains, abrasion features, other sedimentary environments, cave samples, eolian grains, bulbous edge, gravitational transport, minor dissolution, adhering particles, shock lamellae

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New York, Venezuelan Andes, Rouge River, Mount Kenya, Zillertal Alps, Lower Cambrian, Cape Breton, Nile Delta, Cambridge University Press, Mer de Glace, Virunga Mountains, Wellsch Valley, Clear Creek, Dalijia Shan, Earth Sci, Halton Till, Sunnybrook Till, Bull Lake, Caucasus Mountains, Clastic Particles, Fremont Lake, Lake Ontario, Van Nostrand Reinhold, French Alps, North Dakota

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Sedimentary Rocks by F. J. Pettijohn on page 224, and page 229
Aeolian Sand and Sand Dunes (Research texts in sedimentology) by K. Pye on page 230
The Principles and Practice of Electron Microscopy by Ian M. Watt on page 231
Light and Electron Microscopy by Elizabeth M. Slayter on page 230
Antarctica: Soils, Weathering Processes and Environment, Volume 16 (Developments in Soil Science) by I.B. Campbell on page 220

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