A color guide to the petrography of sandstones, siltstones, shales and associated rocks /
AAPG Memoir 109 is designed as a practical guide for students and professionals to learn the fundamentals of microscopic examination of sandstones, mudrocks, and associated rocks. With more than 1100 color illustrations, it covers the identification of grains, textures, and structures of clastic ter...
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| Language: | English |
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Tulsa, OK :
American Association of Petroleum Geologists,
[2014]
Tulsa, OK, U.S.A. : The American Association of Petroleum Geologists, [2014] Tulsa, OK, U.S.A. : [2014] |
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Table of Contents:
- Grains: Quartz and silica
- Monocrystalline
- Polycrystalline
- Feldspars
- Plagioclase
- Potassium feldspars
- Rock fragments
- Sedimentary rock fragments
- Metamorphic rock fragments
- Igneous rock fragments
- Accessory minerals
- Light minerals: Muscovite ; Biotite ; Chlorite
- Ultrastable heavy minerals: Zircon, tourmaline and rutile
- Intermediate-stability heavy minerals: Apatite ; Epidote ; Zoisite and clinozoisite ; Garnet ; Kyanite ; Monzonite, sillimanite and staurolite ; Titanite
- Unstable heavy minerals: Amphibole, pyroxene and olivine
- Opaque minerals
- Associated detrital grains and rocks: Carbonate grains ; Siliceous grains and rocks ; Phosphatic grains and rocks ; Organic grains and rocks ; Evaporite grains and rocks ; Green marine clays and rocks ; Green marine clays and ironstones ; Iron-rich grains and iron formations ; Tuffaceous deposits
- Texture and classification: Sand and sandstone textures
- Sandstone classification
- Mudrocks: Siltstones, mudstones, claystones and shales
- Diagenesis: Synsedimentary and surficial diagenetic features
- Compaction
- Cementation: Introduction. Quartz and silica ; Quartz overgrowths ; Polycrystalline quartz cements ; Amorphous silica cements
- Cementation: Feldspars
- Cementation: Clays ; Chamosite ; Glauconite ; Kaolinite/dickite ; Smectite and illite/smectite ; Illite/sericite ; Chlorite
- Cementation: Zeolites
- Cementation: Carbonates ; Calcite ; Siderite ; Dolomite ; Ankerite
- Cementation: Sulfates and halides ; Gypsum ; Anhydrite ; Barite ; Celestite and halite
- Cementation: Iron oxides and sulfides
- Cementation: Other cements
- Dissolution
- Replacement and recrystallization: Feldspars ; Carbonates ; Sulfates ; Other
- Deformation features
- Other topics: Porosity
- Paragenesis
- Emerging techniques
- Grains: Quartz and silica
- Monocrystalline
- Polycrystalline
- Feldspars
- Plagioclase
- Potassium feldspars
- Rock fragments
- Sedimentary rock fragments
- Metamorphic rock fragments
- Igneous rock fragments
- Accessory minerals
- Light minerals: Muscovite, Biotite, Chlorite
- Ultrastable heavy minerals: Zircon, tourmaline and rutile
- Intermediate-stability heavy minerals: Apatite, Epidote, Zoisite and clinozoisite
- Garnet
- Kyanite
- Monzonite, sillimanite and staurolite
- Titanite
- Unstable heavy minerals: Amphibole, pyroxene and olivine
- Opaque minerals
- Associated detrital grains and rocks: Carbonate grains - Siliceous grains and rocks
- Phosphatic grains and rocks
- Organic grains and rocks
- Evaporite grains and rocks
- Green marine clays and rocks
- Green marine clays and ironstones
- Iron-rich grains and iron formations
- Tuffaceous deposits ; Texture and Classification: Sand and sandstone textures
- Sandstone classification ; Mudrocks: Siltstones, mudstones, claystones and shales
- Diagenesis
- Synsedimentary and surficial diagenetic features
- Compaction
- Cementation - Introduction / Quartz and silica - Quartz overgrowths - Polycrystalline quartz cements
- Amorphous silica cements
- Cementation - Feldspars
- Cementation
- Clays
- Chamosite - Glauconite
- Kaolinite/dickite
- Smectite and illite/smectite - Illite/sericite
- Chlorite
- Cementation
- Zeolites
- Cementation
- Carbonates
- Calcite
- Siderite
- Dolomite
- Ankerite
- Cementaton
- Sulfates and halides
- Gypsum
- Anhydrite
- Barite
- Celestite and halite
- Cementation - Iron oxides and sulfides
- Cementation - Other cements
- Dissolution
- Replacement and recrystallization - Feldspars - Carbonates - Sulfates - Other
- Deformation features ; Other topics: Porosity
- Paragenesis
- Emerging techniques