Early diagenesis : a theoretical approach
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| Main Author | |
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| Format | Electronic eBook |
| Language | English |
| Published |
Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
c1980.
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| Series | Princeton series in geochemistry.
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| Subjects | |
| Online Access | Full text |
| ISBN | 9780691209401 0691209405 0691082588 069108260X (pbk.) 9780691082585 9780691082608 |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource (xii, 241 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- General Theory
- The General Diagenetic Equation
- Diagenetic Physical and Biological Processes
- Advective Processes
- Compaction
- Rate of deposition
- Some additional useful relations
- Factors affecting porosity and compaction
- Diffusion
- Molecular diffusion
- Benthic boundary diffusion
- Bioturbation
- Transfer across the Sediment-Water Interface
- Summary of Mathematics of Diagenetic Physical and Biological Processes
- Diagenetic Chemical Processes I: Equilibrium, Homogeneous, and Microbial Reactions
- Equilibrium Processes
- Determination of equilibrium
- Solubility equilibrium
- Equilibrium adsorption and ion exchange
- Inclusion of equilibrium processes in diagenetic equations
- Homogeneous Reactions (Including Radioactive Decay)
- Microbial (Metabolic) Reactions
- Diagenetic Chemical Processes II: Precipitation, Dissolution, and Authigenic Processes
- Precipitation
- Energetics of precipitation
- Nucleation
- Crystal growth
- Transport-Controlled Growth
- Surface-Reaction Controlled Growth
- Dissolution
- Authigenic (Mineral-Diagenetic) Processes
- Diagenetic redistribution
- Flow vs diffusion
- Precipitation (replacement) from an external source
- Causative factors in authigenic processes
- Applications
- Marine Sediments of the Continental Margins
- Diagenesis Within the Zone of Bioturbation
- Diagenesis Below the Zone of Bioturbation
- Sulfate reduction
- Ammonia formation
- Phosphate diagenesis
- Methane formation
- Pelagic (Deep-Sea) Sediments.