The Monterey Formation [Hardcover]

Caroline M. Isaacs (Editor), Jürgen Rullkötter (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 15, 2001 | ISBN-10: 0231105843 | ISBN-13: 978-0231105842 0

Provides an extraordinary case study of a classic marine petroleum system in the prolific oil basins of California. Based on results from the Cooperative Monterey Organic Chemistry Study, the volume examines paleoenvironmental conditions, organic-matter deposition, source-rock characteristics, thermal maturation, and oil generation in the Monterey Formation.

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About the Author

Caroline M. Isaacs is geologist emeritus at the U. S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park, California.

Jürgen Rullkötter is professor of organic geochemistry at the Institute of Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM) at the University of Oldenburg, Germany.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 608 pages
• Publisher: Columbia University Press (June 15, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0231105843
• ISBN-13: 978-0231105842
• Product Dimensions: 11.3 x 8.8 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,994,791 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Biography of a Rock Formation, May 20, 2001

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Bruce Crocker "agnostictrickster" (Whittier, California United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Monterey Formation (Paperback)

Even though I've been years out of grad school and spend most of my geoexperience teaching earth science to 9th graders, I had to get this book, knowing that a lot of it would be over the top of my rusty geobrain. I live in SoCal and have experience with the Monterey Formation and other time contemporaneous formations. This book is nothing less than the biography of a rock formation and the most thorough book I've seen written about one rock formation. This book is not for the casual browser. If you haven't had at least Geo 101, stay away. My main complaint is with the price. I know this book has a limited audience and the company is probably charging what the market will bear, but how about a bigger break on the paperback edition. With lower prices on the paperbacks, maybe textbooks and technical books would have a wider audience.