Phanerozoic Phosphorite Depositional Systems - A Dynamic Model for a Sedimentary Resource System

The book presents a new and comprehensive model for the development of phosphate sediments. Starting with geochemistry and including new methods in sedimentology (sequence stratigraphy), it results in an interdisciplinary approach to a resource system covering all fields of phosphate geology. For researchers, teachers and students alike the book offers a complete overview of the whole field including case studies of major deposits.

List of contents

Phosphorus in nature: What's this all about.- Phosphate minerals and sediments.- The processes: Phosphogenesis and phosphorite genesis.- Phosphorite deposystems.- Phosphorite deposystems through the Phanerozoic.

Summary

The book presents a new and comprehensive model for the development of phosphate sediments. Starting with geochemistry and including new methods in sedimentology (sequence stratigraphy), it results in an interdisciplinary approach to a resource system covering all fields of phosphate geology. For researchers, teachers and students alike the book offers a complete overview of the whole field including case studies of major deposits.

Product details

• Authors: Jörg Trappe
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1998
• EAN: 9783540635819
• ISBN: 978-3-540-63581-9
• No. of pages: 323
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 15 mm x 235 mm
• Illustrations: XII, 323 p. 163 illus., 37 illus. in color.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences; Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geology; C, Bodenkunde, Sedimentologie, geology, Earth and Environmental Science, Sedimentology & pedology, Sedimentology, Stratigraphy, sequence stratigraphy, phosphogenesis