دانلود کتاب Calcretes (Reprint Series of the IAS 2)

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Cover......Page 1
Frontmatter......Page 2
Contents......Page 5
Preface......Page 7
Calcretes: an Introduction......Page 8
PART I: Quaternary Calcretes......Page 30
Calcretes of Olduvai Gorge and the Ndolanya Beds of northern Tanzania......Page 32
Pellets, ooids, sepiolite and silica in three calcretes of the southwestern United States......Page 57
Quaternary pedogenic calcretes from the Kalahari (southern Africa): mineralogy, genesis and diagenesis......Page 75
PART II: Biological Activity and Calcrete Fabrics......Page 101
Caliche profile formation, Saldanha Bay (South Africa)......Page 102
Biolithogenesis of Microcodium: elucidation......Page 120
Rhizoliths in terrestrial carbonates: classification, recognition, genesis and significance......Page 154
Calcrete profiles in the Eyam Limestone (Carboniferous) of Derbyshire: petrology and regional significance......Page 171
A rendzina from the Lower Carboniferous of South Wales......Page 181
The role of fungal biomineralization in the formation of Early Carboniferous soil fabrics......Page 192
Petrographic and geochemical analysis of caliche profiles in a Bahamian Pleistocene dune......Page 200
PART III: Biological Activity and Laminar Calcretes......Page 208
Origin of subaerial Holocene calcareous crusts: role of algae, fungi and sparmicritisation......Page 209
Calcification in a coccoid cyanobacterium associated with the formation of desert stromatolites......Page 232
Biogenic laminar calcretes: evidence of calcified root-mat horizons in paleosols......Page 244
PART IV: Aspects of Calcrete Petrography......Page 262
Calcrete conglomerate, case-hardened conglomerate and cornstone - a comparative account of pedogenic and non-pedogenic carbonates from the continental Siwalik Group, Punjab, India......Page 264
Siliciclastic grain breakage and displacement due to carbonate crystal growth: an example from the Lueders Formation (Permian) of north-central Texas, U.S.A.......Page 279
Near-surface shrinkage and carbonate replacement processes, Arran Cornstone Formation, Scotland......Page 286
The application of cathodoluminescence to interpreting the diagenesis of an ancient calcrete profile......Page 300
PART V: Calcretes and Palustrine Carbonates......Page 320
Lacustrine carbonates and pedogenesis: sedimentology and origin of palustrine deposits from the Early Cretaceous Rupelo Formation, W Cameros Basin, N Spain......Page 321
References......Page 341
Index......Page 346