Product Description

More than half of the world′s petroleum is to be 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 which have contributed to carbonate sedimentation, and in part to a wide variety of diagenetic processes which 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 colour a range of features not attempted in any general textbook, is designed as a laboratory manual to keep beside the microscope, as an aid to identifying grain types and textures in carbonates. It will appeal alike to undergraduate and graduate students and to professionals in teaching institutions, research laboratories and industry.

• Subject of enormous economic and academic importance.
  
• Limited and outdated competition.
  
• Appeals to a wide range of markets; academics and professionals worldwide.
  
• Concise, practical text and superb colour photography.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #319090 in Books
• Published on: 1998-04-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 184 pages

Min Mag
The quality of colour illustrations is of the highest standard. The images are sharp, and the colour reproduction is excellent

American Mineralogist
... it behooves even the veteran petrologist to have access to this new publication by Adams and MacKenzie.

Microscopy & Imaging News
An immensely useful book. It is the next best thing to being lead through a collection of slides by an experienced tutor..... It will appeal to geologists at every level.... Unlike many books written to be kept by the microscope, it opens flat.