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Mud and mudstones : introduction and overview / P.E. Potter, J.B. Maynard, P.J. Depetris.

Title
Mud and mudstones : introduction and overview / P.E. Potter, J.B. Maynard, P.J. Depetris.
Author
Potter, Paul Edwin
Publication
Berlin ; New York : Springer, c2005.

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Additional Authors
  • Maynard, J. Barry
  • Depetris, P. J.
  • Depetris, P. J. (Pedro J.)
Description
xi, 297 p. : ill., maps; 28 cm.
Summary
"This book provides the first elementary overview of mud and mudstone written for a broad spectrum of professionals, teachers and students in geology, petroleum geology and engineering, urban planning and development, paleontology and paleoecology, and architecture and archaeology."--Jacket.
Alternative Title
Mud & mudstones
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
1. Overview -- 2. Production of mud and silt -- 3. Transport and deposition -- 4. Role of oxygen -- 5. Muddy depositional systems -- 6. Burial -- 7. Provenance of mudstones -- 8. Muddy basins -- 9. Practicalities -- App. A.1. Field and core description -- App. A.2. Terminology -- App. A.3. Clay minerals -- App. A.4. Soils and paleosols -- App. A.5. Petrographic study -- App. A.6. Organic matter -- App. A.7. Isotopes : the stable isotopes of C, O, H, S, and N.
ISBN
3540221573 (hbk.)
OCLC
  • 56697110
  • SCSB-10146998
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library