Sedimentary Petrology: An Introduction to the Origin of by Maurice E. Tucker
By Maurice E. Tucker
The learn of sediments and sedimentary rocks remains to be a center subject within the Earth Sciences and this publication goals to supply a concise account in their composition, mineralogy, textures, constructions, diagenesis and depositional environments.
This newest version is noteworthy for the inclusion of sixteen plates with fifty four color photomicrographs of sedimentary rocks in thin-section. those convey sediments to existence and express their attractiveness and colourful visual appeal down the microscope; they are going to reduction the coed tremendously in laboratory petrographic paintings. The textual content has been revised the place priceless and the reference and extra interpreting lists introduced up to date. New tables were integrated to aid undergraduates with rock and thin-section description and interpretation.
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New 16-page color part will suggest scholars should not have to shop for Longman Atlas
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All illustrations redrawn to better standard
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Complete revision of textual content - new fabric on sedimentary geochemistry, etc
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