Environment of calcium carbonate deposition west of Andros Island, Bahamas / by Preston E. Cloud, Jr.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Cloud, Preston, 1912-1991, author.

Contributor:

Geological Survey (U.S.), issuing body.

Series:

Geological Survey professional paper ; 350.

Geological Survey professional paper ; 350

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Calcium carbonate--Bahamas--Great Bahama Bank.

Calcium carbonate.

Marine sediments--Bahamas--Great Bahama Bank.

Marine sediments.

Sedimentation and deposition.

Limestone.

Bahamas--Great Bahama Bank.

Genre:

Online resources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 138 pages, [10] plates) : illustrations, maps.

Distribution:

Washington : United States Government Printing Office

Place of Publication:

Washington : United States Department of the Interior, Geological Survey, 1962.

Notes:

Title from title screen (viewed September 30, 2014).

Also available online in PDF format from the U.S. Geological Survey Warehouse (http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/).

"With sections on Mechanical characteristics of the sediments, by Paul D. Blackmon; Microbiology and biochemistry of sediments and overlaying water, by Frederick D. Sisler; Chemical analysis of the water, by Henry Kramer; The problem of calcium determination in sea water, by James H. Carpenter; Experimental consolidation of calcium carbonate sediment, by Eugene C. Robertson, Lynn R. Sykes and Marcia Newell.

"A study of the sediments, waters, general ecology, precipitation mechanisms, and early diagenesis in an environment considered comparable to those in which some ancient aphanitic and pelletal limestone originated."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 126-132) and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Cloud, Preston, 1912-1991. Environment of calcium carbonate deposition west of Andros Island, Bahamas

OCLC:

892425229