More than half of the world's petroleum is found in carbonate rocks - for example, in the Middle East, the former USSR and in North America. These rocks show a bewildering diversity of grains and textures, due in part to the wealth of different fossil organisms that have contributed to carbonate sedimentation, and in part to a wide variety of diagenetic processes that can radically modify textures and obscure the depositional fabric. Careful petrographic study with a polarising microscope is a key element of any study of carbonate sediments - as a companion to field or core logging and as a necessary precursor to geochemical analysis. This atlas, which illustrates in full color a range of features not attempted in any general textbook, is designed as a laboratory manual to keep beside the microscope, and as an aid to identifying grain types and textures in carbonates. It will appeal alike to under-graduate and graduate students and to professionals in teaching institutions, research laboratories and industry. A Color Atlas of Rocks and Minerals in Thin Section - W. S. MacKenzie and A. E. Adams
- ISBN10 0470296224
- ISBN13 9780470296226
- Publish Date 7 May 1998 (first published 1 January 1998)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 18 February 2022
- Publish Country US
- Imprint John Wiley & Sons Inc
- Edition New edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 184
- Language English