Carbonate Diagenesis and Porosity (Volume 46) (Developments in Sedimentology, Volume 46)

By Clyde H. Moore

Book Overview

Hardbound. Carbonate diagenesis is a subject of enormous complexity because of the basic chemical reactivity of carbonate minerals. These carbonate minerals react quickly with natural waters that either dissolve the carbonates, or precipitate new carbonates to bring the water into equilibrium with the host carbonate sediments and rocks. These rock-water interactions either create porosity by dissolution, or destroy porosity by the precipitation of carbonate cements into pore spaces. Carbonate Diagenesis and Porosity examines these important relationships in detail.This volume is published in co-operation with OGCI, and is based on training courses organised by OGCI and taught by Dr. Moore. It is intended to give the working geologist and university graduate student a reasonable overview of carbonate diagenesis and its influence on the evolution of carbonate porosity. It starts with a discussion of the major differences between carbonates and silic

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0444874151
• ISBN13: 9780444874153
• Release Date: April 1989
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Length: 337 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.