Sediments and Environmental Geochemistry Selected Aspects and Case Histories [Paperback]

Sediments and Environmental Geochemistry is dedicated to Professor German M?ller on the occasion of his 60th birthday. The individual articles, written by outstanding scientists, cover a wide range of subjects indicating the broad spectrum of his interests. The main topics are: Carbonate and Evaporite Petrology, Petroleum Formation and Exploration, Environmental Geochemistry, Coal Petrography, Data Bases in Geosciences, and Volcanology.Sediments and Environmental Geochemistry is dedicated to Professor German M?ller on the occasion of his 60th birthday. The individual articles, written by outstanding scientists, cover a wide range of subjects indicating the broad spectrum of his interests. The main topics are: Carbonate and Evaporite Petrology, Petroleum Formation and Exploration, Environmental Geochemistry, Coal Petrography, Data Bases in Geosciences, and Volcanology.I: Geology.- Thoughts on the Growth of Stratiform Stylolites in Buried Limestones..- Anthracite and Concentrations of Alkaline Feldspar (Microcline) in Flat-Lying Undeformed Paleozoic Strata: A Key to Large-Scale Vertical Crustal Uplift..- Sediments on Volcanic Islands  On the Importance of the Exception..- Fallout Tephra Layers: Composition and Significance..- Isotope Geochemistry of Primary and Secondary Carbonate Minerals in the Shaban-Deep (Red Sea)..- Biogenic Constituents, Cement Types, and Sedimentary Fabrics..- The Southern Permian Basin and its Paleogeography..- Integrated Hydrocarbon Exploration Concepts in the Sedimentary Basins of West Germany..- Sedimentological and Petrophysical Aspects of Primary Petroleum Migration Pathways..- The Influence of Subrosion on Three Different Types of Salt Deposits..- Particle Size Distribution of Saliferous Clays in the German Zechstein..- Mineralogical and Petrographic Studies on the Anhydritmittelsalz (Leine Cycle z3) in the Gorleben Salt Dome..- Lacustrine Paper Shales in the Permocarboniferous Saar-Nahe Basin (WestlC’