Heavy Minerals: Methods & Case Histories
Andò, Sergio
Heavy Minerals: Methods & Case Histories - Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020 - 1 electronic resource (312 p.)
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The principal aim of this book is to provide a wide range of information and a useful reference for researchers interested to investigate heavy mineral assemblages in different geological settings and for a variety of purposes. The methodological developments achieved in recent years for the identification of heavy minerals in a wide grain-size range are illustrated. All factors that affect heavy mineral concentration and relative proportions, including hydraulic sorting, mechanical abrasion, chemical weathering, and post-depositional dissolution, and all factors able to introduce analytical, environmental, or diagenetic bias are thoroughly addressed. A proper integration of multiple techniques including bulk sediment, multi-mineral, and single-mineral methods are discussed by renowned authors in their invited contributions.
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books978-3-03936-131-1 9783039361304 9783039361311
10.3390/books978-3-03936-131-1 doi
Research & information: general
heavy minerals correlation North Sea Jurassic Triassic Carboniferous Devonian relative and absolute abundances sampling strategy size-window for analysis heavy mineral point-counting provenance and plate-tectonic setting chemical weathering hydraulic sorting recycling diagenesis sediment provenance statistics zircon point counting petrography mineral grains composition surface textures sources WNW Portuguese Continental Margin Raman spectroscopy sedimentary provenance automatization heavy mineral Pliocene the Changjiang Delta amphibole surface texture garnet epidote pyroxene provenance tracers varietal studies mineral chemistry semi-automated Raman counting Ladakh-Kohistan arcs Himalaya Nanga Parbat Karakorum Indus river amphiboles tremolite actinolite provenance analysis tectonic versus climatic control early-middle Pleistocene transition Yellow River terraces Lanzhou (northern China) sieving of fine silt fallacy of laser granulometry benthic foraminifera Ganga–Brahmaputra river system Bay of Bengal Himalayan orogen bulk-sediment petrography bulk-sediment geochemistry selective entrainment suspension sorting chemical indices of weathering sediment budgets Brahmaputra River Ganga River handbook for laboratory procedures nontoxic heavy liquids wet sieving of silt zircon separation heavy-mineral mounts n/a
Heavy Minerals: Methods & Case Histories - Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020 - 1 electronic resource (312 p.)
Open Access
The principal aim of this book is to provide a wide range of information and a useful reference for researchers interested to investigate heavy mineral assemblages in different geological settings and for a variety of purposes. The methodological developments achieved in recent years for the identification of heavy minerals in a wide grain-size range are illustrated. All factors that affect heavy mineral concentration and relative proportions, including hydraulic sorting, mechanical abrasion, chemical weathering, and post-depositional dissolution, and all factors able to introduce analytical, environmental, or diagenetic bias are thoroughly addressed. A proper integration of multiple techniques including bulk sediment, multi-mineral, and single-mineral methods are discussed by renowned authors in their invited contributions.
Creative Commons
English
books978-3-03936-131-1 9783039361304 9783039361311
10.3390/books978-3-03936-131-1 doi
Research & information: general
heavy minerals correlation North Sea Jurassic Triassic Carboniferous Devonian relative and absolute abundances sampling strategy size-window for analysis heavy mineral point-counting provenance and plate-tectonic setting chemical weathering hydraulic sorting recycling diagenesis sediment provenance statistics zircon point counting petrography mineral grains composition surface textures sources WNW Portuguese Continental Margin Raman spectroscopy sedimentary provenance automatization heavy mineral Pliocene the Changjiang Delta amphibole surface texture garnet epidote pyroxene provenance tracers varietal studies mineral chemistry semi-automated Raman counting Ladakh-Kohistan arcs Himalaya Nanga Parbat Karakorum Indus river amphiboles tremolite actinolite provenance analysis tectonic versus climatic control early-middle Pleistocene transition Yellow River terraces Lanzhou (northern China) sieving of fine silt fallacy of laser granulometry benthic foraminifera Ganga–Brahmaputra river system Bay of Bengal Himalayan orogen bulk-sediment petrography bulk-sediment geochemistry selective entrainment suspension sorting chemical indices of weathering sediment budgets Brahmaputra River Ganga River handbook for laboratory procedures nontoxic heavy liquids wet sieving of silt zircon separation heavy-mineral mounts n/a