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Record Nr.

UNINA9910706553003321

Autore

Cloud Preston <1912-1991, >

Titolo

Environment of calcium carbonate deposition west of Andros Island, Bahamas / / by Preston E. Cloud, Jr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington : , : United States Department of the Interior, Geological Survey, , 1962

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vi, 138 pages, 10 unnumbered plates) : illustrations, maps

Collana

Geological Survey professional paper ; ; 350

Soggetti

Calcium carbonate - Bahamas - Great Bahama Bank

Marine sediments - Bahamas - Great Bahama Bank

Sedimentation and deposition

Limestone

Calcium carbonate

Marine sediments

Bahamas Great Bahama Bank

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed September 30, 2014).

"With sections on Mechanical characteristics of the sediments, by Paul D. Blackmon; Microbiology and biochemistry of sediments and overlaying water, by Frederick D. Sisler; Chemical analysis of the water, by Henry Kramer; The problem of calcium determination in sea water, by James H. Carpenter; Experimental consolidation of calcium carbonate sediment, by Eugene C. Robertson, Lynn R. Sykes and Marcia Newell.

"A study of the sediments, waters, general ecology, precipitation mechanisms, and early diagenesis in an environment considered comparable to those in which some ancient aphanitic and pelletal limestone originated."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 126-132) and index.