Black shales
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Black shales
（Oxford monographs on geology and geophysics, no. 30）（Oxford science publications）
Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1994
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- Sedimentology
- Palaeoecology
- Inorganic Geochemistry
- Organic Geochemistry
- Productivity versus preservation in black shale formation
- Modern analogues for black shale formation
- Ancient examples of black shale deposition
- Transgressive black shales - a stratigraphic enigma.
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