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Sandstone Diagenesis: Recent and Ancient

Name: Sandstone Diagenesis: Recent and Ancient
Author: Richard Worden
ISBN: 9781405108973

by Richard Worden (Editor), Stuart Burley

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Overview

Diagenesis affects all sediments after their deposition and includes a fundamental suite of physical, chemical and biological processes that control the texture, mineralogy and fluid-flow properties of sedimentary rocks. Understanding the processes and products of diagenesis is thus a critical component in the analysis of the evolution of sedimentary basins, and has practical implications for subsurface porosity destruction, preservation and generation. This in turn is of great relevance to the petroleum and water industries, as well as to the location and nature of some economic mineral deposits.

Combines key papers in sandstone diagenesis published in Sedimentology over the last 30 years.
Records the development of diagenesis from the description of grain shapes through provenance, petrography and analytical geochemistry to predictive models of diagenetic process.
Provides definitions and explanations of the terms and concepts used in diagenesis.

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Synopsis

A reader and reference for students and professionals in geology and other earth sciences, comprised of 39 selected from the journal Sedimentology over the past 30 years. They revolve around diagenesis, a suite of physical, chemical, and biological processes that alter over time the texture, mineralogy, and fluid-flow characteristics of sedimentary rock after it has been deposited, in the case examined here, sandstone. The first section considers eogenesis, or early diagenesis, in marine, warm and wet, and arid environments. The other section looks at mesogenesis, or burial diagenesis, as it affects and involves such material as quartz, carbon cement, clay and aluminosilicate, and oil. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

About the Author, Richard Worden

Justine Burley is Simon Fellow in the Department of Government, University of Manchester and Lecturer in Politics at Exeter College, Oxford. She is editor of The Genetic Revolution and Human Rights (1998), the Oxford Amnesty Lectures for 1998, which she co-organized.

John Harris is Sir David Alliance Professor of Bioethics at the University of Manchester where he is also Director of the Centre for Social Ethics and Policy and Academic Director of the Institute of Medicine, Law and Bioethics. He is the author of Violence and Responsibility (1980), The Value of Life (1985), Wonderwoman and Superman (1992, and Clones, Genes and Immortality (1998). He has also co-edited Experiments on Embryos (1990), Ethics and Biotechnology (1994), and The Future of Human Reproduction (1998).