Petroleum Technology - General & Miscellaneous, Sediments & Sedimentology in Geology
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Overview
This is a completely revised edition of Applied Sedimentology, first published in 1988. Like its precursor, it describes sediments from sand grains to sedimentary basins. Part 1, Rock to Sediment, introduces the concept of the sedimentary cycle, describes weathering and soil formation, and details the fundamental physical properties of a sediment: texture, porosity, and permeability. Part 2, Sediment Sedimented, begins by describing the transportation and deposition of sediment and the resultant sedimentary structures. It ends with a description of the various depositional systems, sequence stratigraphy, and cyclicity. Part 3, Sediment to Rock, opens by describing how pressure, temperature, and fluid processes control petroleum and ore formation. It continues with accounts of the evolution of porosity and permeability in carbonates and sandstones. The last chapter describes the different types of sedimentary basins, their origins, depositional fill, and the evolution of their fluids. The book emphasizes the applications of sedimentology to the exploration for and exploitation of natural resources, including water, ores, and hydrocarbons. Applied Sedimentology is written principally for senior undergraduate and postgraduate students of earth science and engineering. It may also, however, prove useful to more mature readers who explore and exploit the sedimentary rocks for fossil fuels and mineral deposits.Richard Selley has spent most of his career at the Royal School of Mines, Imperial College, London University, where he is Professor of Applied Sedimentology. Between 1969-75, however, he worked for oil companies in Libya,Greenland and the North Sea. The author has been awarded the Murchison Fund of the Geological Society. He has been a Distinguished Lecturer of the Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia and has been awarded a Certificate of Merit and a Survivor Certificate by the American Association of Petroleum Geologists.
Audience: Senior undergraduate and graduate geology students in sedimentology, petroleum geology, petroleum engineering, mining geology, hydrogeology, mineral exploration, and environmental geology; oil company geologists and reservoir engineers and mining companies.
Editorials
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...this book would make an important addition to the library of any geologist...will have considerable value for undergraduate and graduate students in the earth sciences...an important contribution.Journal of Sedimentary Research
...a clearly, crisply and tightly written book with a pleasing style...a nice succinct overview of the diverse field of sedimentology...a good readBooknews
Selley (applied sedimentology, U. of London) writes primarily for graduate or senior undergraduate students of geology or engineering, but suggests that his work would also be useful to professionals who explore and exploit sedimentary rocks for fossil fuels and mineral deposits. His goal is to present the basic processes before students and geologists weigh in on the latest theoretical debate and fire up the last computer program for modeling a basin, so they can tell the different between granite and arkose and understand the formation of cross-bedding. The first edition was published in 1988, but that in turn was effectively the third edition of , first published in 1976. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Book Details
Published
May 24, 2000
Publisher
Academic Press
Pages
523
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780126363753