Evaporite Basins

Characteristic examples of evaporite basins, mostly of moderate size, are discussed in terms of type (playas, continental sabkhas, barred basins), deposits, fossils, relics and pseudomorphs of gypsum found, and complex of diagenesis, e.g. in the Red Sea Miocene where reef complexes predate the deposition of massive evaporites. Two models, the sabkha model and the deep desiccation basin model, are both employed to explain the formation of evaporite basins . In many cases both models must be combined as many evaporites were formed in subaqueous environments.

List of contents

Facies models for Australian precambrian evaporites.- Characteristic and environments of sinian evaporite in southern Sichuan, China.- The lower carboniferous (visean) evaporites in northern France and Belgium: Depositional, diagenetic and deformational guides to reconstruct a disrupted evaporitic basin.- Depositional models of lower and middle triassic evaporites in the upper Yangtze area, China.- Middle muschelkalk evaporitic deposits in eastern Paris basin.- Sedimentary models of gypsum-bearing clastic rocks and prospects for associated hydrocarbons west of the tarim basin (China) in miocene.- Reef-stromatolites-evaporites facies relationships from middle miocene examples of the gulf of Suez and the red sea.

Product details

• Assisted by: Tadeus M Peryt (Editor), Tadeusz M Peryt (Editor), Tadeusz M. Peryt (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.12.2013
• EAN: 9783540186793
• ISBN: 978-3-540-18679-3
• No. of pages: 188
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 240 mm x 8 mm
• Weight: 385 g
• Illustrations: V, 188 p. 165 illus.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences; Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geology