Evaporites: Sediments, Resources and Hydrocarbons /
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| Language: | English |
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Berlin, Heidelberg :
Springer Berlin Heidelberg,
2006.
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Table of Contents:
- Interpreting evaporite texture
- Depositional chemistry and hydrology
- Sabkhas, saline mudflats and pans
- Subaqueous salts: salinas and perennial lakes
- Ancient basins and stratigraphic evolution
- Salt tectonics
- Karst, breccia, nodules and cement: Pointers to vanished evaporites
- Burial hydrology and chemistry
- Halotolerant life in feast or famine (a source of hydrocarbons and a fixer of metals)
- Oil and gas associations
- Evaporites as exploited mineral resources
- Solution mining and cavern use.