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Black shales / P.B. Wignall.
LIBRA QE471.15.S5 W54 1994
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wignall, P. B.
- Series:
- Oxford monographs on geology and geophysics ; no. 30.
- Oxford science publications
- Oxford monographs on geology and geophysics ; 30
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Oil-shales.
- Geochemistry.
- Petroleum--Geology.
- Petroleum.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 127 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.
- Summary:
- Black shales provides the first comprehensive synthesis of the diverse research regarding the origin of petroleum source rocks. The book offers in-depth reviews from the fields sedimentology, palaeoecology, and geochemistry, and particularly focuses on the influence of palaeo-oxygen levels. Current debates--including the one over the influence of sedimentation rate, productivity, and enhanced preservation on the burial efficiency of organic carbon--receive a lively discussion. In addition, the importance of newly defined concepts of sequence stratigraphy to models of the formation of black shales receives an in-depth treatment for the first time. The book will be of interest to all geologists investigating palaeoenvironments, particularly those engaged in the search for hydrocarbons.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [99]-124) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0198540388 :
- OCLC:
- 29469074
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