Clear writing and analysis of the broad spectrum of processes that produce shale are coupled with well-captioned 150 illustrations, 40 tables, boxed technical details, glossary and appendices. Recounts the step-by-step evolution and stages of shal, enabling readers to master the basics and to dig yet deeper into their origin, practical implications and relationship to earth history. Background information appears in appendices (Clay Mineralogy, Isotopes, Petrology, etc.); technicial details in high-lighted boxes, and definitions of 300+ terms in the Glossary.
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Aus den Rezensionen: "Das von den Autoren aus den USA und Argentinien verfasste Buch wendet sich an Geologen und Mineralogen … Jedes Kapitel enthält ein Literaturverzeichnis … Ein Glossary von 10 Seiten sowie eine Zusammenstellung der Tonminerale machen das Buch zu einem wertvollen Nachschlagewerk." (Tone, Tonsteine und Rutschungen, in: GMIT – Geowissenschaftliche Mitteilungen, 2006, Issue 25, S. 100)
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Detrital fine-grained sediments, all those composed of 50 percent or more of particles smaller than 62 micrometers, include terrigenous mud and mudstone, carbonate mud (micrite) and micstone and silt and siltstone plus deep sea ooze and sapropel. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
older mudstones, mudstone properties, mudstone color, ancient mudstones, muddy basins, shelfal muds, clinoform structure, carbonate interbeds, many mudstones, mudstone types, pericratonic basins, metalliferous black shales, silt production, bottom anoxia, euxinic basins, modern muds, prodelta deposits, tidal rhythmites, lacustrine mudstones, marine mudstones, mud production, expandable clay minerals, mud belt, terrigenous mud, bottom oxygen Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Muddy Depositional Systems, Atlantic Ocean, Special Publication, North America, Gulf Coast, United States, North Sea, Digging Deeper, South America, Special Paper, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Geochim Cosmochim Acta, Gulf of Mexico, Mississippi River, Monterey Formation, Ridge Basin, Elsevier Science, Geol Soc Am Bull, North Atlantic, Blackwell Scientific, Marine Geol, Pacific Ocean, Hudson Bay, Geol Soc London New!
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Detrital fine-grained sediments, all those composed of 50 percent or more of particles smaller than 62 micrometers, include terrigenous mud and mudstone, carbonate mud (micrite) and micstone and silt and siltstone plus deep sea ooze and sapropel. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
older mudstones, mudstone properties, mudstone color, ancient mudstones, muddy basins, shelfal muds, clinoform structure, carbonate interbeds, many mudstones, mudstone types, pericratonic basins, metalliferous black shales, silt production, bottom anoxia, euxinic basins, modern muds, prodelta deposits, tidal rhythmites, lacustrine mudstones, marine mudstones, mud production, expandable clay minerals, mud belt, terrigenous mud, bottom oxygen Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Muddy Depositional Systems, Atlantic Ocean, Special Publication, North America, Gulf Coast, United States, North Sea, Digging Deeper, South America, Special Paper, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Geochim Cosmochim Acta, Gulf of Mexico, Mississippi River, Monterey Formation, Ridge Basin, Elsevier Science, Geol Soc Am Bull, North Atlantic, Blackwell Scientific, Marine Geol, Pacific Ocean, Hudson Bay, Geol Soc London New!
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- Shales and mudstones on 17 pages
- Petroleum Geochemistry and Geology by John Hunt on 5 pages
- Tectonics of Sedimentary Basins by Cathy J. Busby on page 220, page 221, and page 222
- Evolution of the Western Interior Basin (Gac Special Paper, No. 39) by W. G. E. Caldwell in Front Matter, page 125, and page 220
- Black Shales (Oxford Science Publications) by P. B. Wignall on page 6, page 73, and page 223
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