Carbonate Platform Slopes - a Record of Changing Conditions
Author: Hildegard Westphal
Publisher:
Published: 2014-01-15
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9783662213957
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Carbonate Platform Slopes — A Record of Changing Conditions
Author: Hildegard Westphal
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2008-01-03
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 3540691766
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Periplatform slope sediments from the Bahamas serve as an example for a small-scale sedimentologic record of environmental changes. Carbonate platforms react sensitively to sea-level fluctuations. Therefore, sediments deposited on the slope during lowstands differ in composition from highstand deposits. A second focus is the early diagenetic alteration and cementation of these sediments with their high diagenetic potential. This book contributes to and discusses new developments in carbonate sedimentology such as the concepts of highstand shedding and early burial diagenesis, which also have an impact on reservoir studies.
Carbonate Systems During the Olicocene-Miocene Climatic Transition
Author: Maria Mutti
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Published: 2011-06-13
Total Pages: 315
ISBN-13: 1444349155
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Oligocene and Miocene Epochs comprise the most important phases in the Cenozoic global cooling that led from a greenhouse to an icehouse Earth. Recent major advances in the understanding and time-resolution of climate events taking place at this time, as well as the proliferation of studies on Oligocene and Miocene shallow-water/neritic carbonate systems, invite us to re-evaluate the significance of these carbonate systems in the context of changes in climate and Earth surface processes. Carbonate systems, because of a wide dependence on the ecological requirements of organisms producing the sediment, are sensitive recorders of changes in environmental conditions on the Earth surface. The papers included in this Special Publication address the dynamic evolution of carbonate systems deposited during the Oligocene and Miocene in the context on climatic and Earth surfaces processes focusing on climatic trends and controls over deposition; temporal changes in carbonate producers and palaeoecology; carbonate terminology; facies; processes and environmental parameters (including water temperature and production depth profiles); carbonate producers and their spatial and temporal variability; and tectonic controls over architecture. This book is part of the International Association of Sedimentologists (IAS) Special Publications. The Special Publications from the IAS are a set of thematic volumes edited by specialists on subjects of central interest to sedimentologists. Papers are reviewed and printed to the same high standards as those published in the journal Sedimentology and several of these volumes have become standard works of reference.
Carbonate Depositional Systems: Assessing Dimensions and Controlling Parameters
Author: Hildegard Westphal
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2010-08-05
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9048193648
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Carbonate sediments are of increasing relevance for archives of past environmental conditions and for economical reasons in areas of geothermal energy and hydrocarbon reservoirs. Complex interaction of physical and chemical parameters with biological parameters determines the architecture and composition of carbonate sedimentary bodies. This book closes some of the still existing gaps in our understanding of the influence and interplay of physical, chemical, and biological parameters with carbonate sedimentation. An understanding of this interaction is not only required for reliable prediction of reservoir quality but also for a robust interpretation of environmental conditions in the past and the present. It is written by geologists for geologists in order to provide an easily accessible overview of the large amount of relevant information provided by the neighbouring sciences. The approach of the book is to document the modern depositional environments of three classical areas of carbonate deposition, each characteristic for a specific sedimentological setting (isolated platform, attached shelf, ramp) in order to assess both the range of physical, biological and chemical parameters and their sedimentary response. This book presents a comprehensive compilation based on data from published work and unpublished theses, and the integration of these data in order to extract previously undiscovered relationships between the discussed parameters and carbonate deposition.
Deep-Sea Sediments
Author: H. Huneke
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 2011-02-08
Total Pages: 865
ISBN-13: 0444530002
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →'Deep-Sea Sediments' focuses on the sedimentary processes operating within the various modern and ancient deep-sea environments. The chapters track the way of sedimentary particles from continental erosion or production in the marine realm, to transport into the deep sea, to final deposition on the sea floor.
Impact Stratigraphy
Author: Alessandro Montanari
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2006-04-10
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 3540483667
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book provides a general introduction to impact stratigraphy, with emphasis on the recognition of distal impact ejecta in the field, by focusing on the impactoclastic layers of the Umbria-Marche sequence in Central Italy, with an almost perfect stratigraphic record over the last 200 Million years. A general introduction to impact cratering and a discussion of distal ejecta and impact layers around the world is followed by a detailed description of the record of the impact of extraterrestrial bodies in sediments of the Umbria-Marche Apennines. The volume is of interest to a diverse audience in the geological and planetary sciences, ranging from (upper) undergraduate to research level. This book can also be used by students and researchers as a field guide to some of the most important Italian impact layers.
Reactive Flow Modeling of Hydrothermal Systems
Author: Michael Kühn
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2004-01-22
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9783540203384
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →1. General Significance of Geochemical Models of Hydrothermal Systems,- 2. Concepts, Classification and Chemistry of Geothermal Systems,- 3.Theory of Chemical Modeling,- 4. Specific Features of Coupled Fluid Flow and Chemical Reaction,- 5. Fossil Hydrothermal Systems,- 6. Recent Hydrothermal Systems,- 7. Reservoir Management.
Wavelets in the Geosciences
Author: Roland Klees
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2000-03-06
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9783540669517
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book contains state-of-the-art continuous wavelet analysis of one and more dimensional (geophysical) signals. Special attention is given to the reconaissance of specific properties of a signal. It also contains an extension of standard wavelet approximation to the application of so-called second generation wavelets for efficient representation of signals at various scales even on the sphere and more complex geometries. Furthermore, the book discusses the application of harmonic (spherical) wavelets in potential field analysis with emphasis on the gravity field of the Earth. Many examples are given for practical application of these tools; to support the text exercises and demonstrations are available on the Web.
Subsurface Geology of a Prograding Carbonate Platform Margin, Great Bahama Bank
Author: Robert N. Ginsburg
Publisher: SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology)
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume will be of special interest to carbonate sedimentologists, geochemists, petroleum geologists, engineers, and seismologists. It addresses fundamental aspects of prograding carbonate platforms in a Neogene example from Great Bahama Bank. A remarkable seismic profile, which imaged the prograding margin, provided the seismic stratigraphic framework. Two continuouslycored and logged borings on the profile produced the ground truth for testing and characterizing processes: lithologies and ages of sequence boundaries; influence of sea level fluctuations on progradation, controls on impedance contrasts in carbonates; fluid flow through the submerged margin; log responses of different lithologies; and the origin, ages and depositional environments of the platform top and prograding clinothems. The new findings on diagenesis are of special interest, including complete mineral stabilization in seawater, early burial dolomitization related to sequence boundaries and how diagenesis controls sonic velocity and permeability.
The Sedimentary Record of Sea-Level Change
Author: Angela L. Coe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-05-22
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780521538428
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A lavishly illustrated textbook on sequence stratigraphy, supported by numerous learning features and supplementary website.
