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Principles of Lithogenesis

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Table of contents (28 chapters)

  1. Stages of Humid-Climate Lithogenesis

  2. Humid Sedimentary Complexes as Paragenetic Rock Associations

  3. Characteristic Features of Humid Rock Formation in the Principal Structural Elements of the Earth’s Crust

  4. Glacial, Arid, and Volcanic-Sedimentary Types of Lithogenesis and their Peculiarities. The Relationship of Sedimentary Rock Formation to the Development of the Earth

  5. Distribution of Climatic Types of Lithogenesis on the Earth’s Surface During Phanerozoic Time

  6. Grain-Size Sorting of Sandy Silts and Clayey Sediments of Various Facies Types

  7. Distribution and Accumulation of Clastic and Clay Minerals in Deposits of Various Facies Types

  8. The Laws of Distribution of Components Having Complex Forms of Migration

  9. Ore Accumulations of Al-Fe-Mn, Their Genesis and Distribution in Humid Zones

  10. Accumulations of P-CaCO3-MgCO3-SiO2, their Origin and Distribution within Humid Zones

  11. Types of Accumulations of Organic Material and their Distribution in Humid Zones

  12. Pattern of Composition, Genesis and Distribution of Humid Deposits

  13. Basin Sediments and Processes as a Physicochemical System

  14. The Diagenetic Formation of Minerals in Basins of Various Physical-Geographical Types

  15. Patterns in the Redistribution of Substances During Diagenesis of Sediments in Humid Zones: The Carbonate Concretions

  16. The Initial Stage of Arid Lithogenesis and its Characteristics in Modern and Ancient Epochs

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Authors, Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

    S. I. Tomkeieff, J. E. Hemingway

  • Institute of Geology, Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R., Russia

    N. M. Strakhov

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Principles of Lithogenesis

  • Authors: N. M. Strakhov

  • Editors: S. I. Tomkeieff, J. E. Hemingway

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-8923-1

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag US 1967

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4684-8923-1Published: 14 November 2014

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXXI, 1453

  • Topics: Mineralogy

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