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Autore: | Mortimore Rory N. |
Titolo: | Logging the chalk / / Rory N. Mortimore |
Pubblicazione: | Dunbeath, Scotland : , : Whittles Publishing, , 2014 |
©2014 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (369 p.) |
Disciplina: | 624.15132 |
Soggetto topico: | Chalk - Testing |
Chalk - Analysis | |
Drill core analysis | |
Geology, Economic | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Preface and Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Describing, classifying and interpreting the Chalk for engineering purposes ; Equipment for logging, eningeering description and classification; Describing chalk sediments; Carbonate content and density measurements; Recognising and describing chalk beds; Recognising and describing phosphatic chalks; Recognising and describing marly chalks and marl seams; Recognising and describing flints and flint bands; Synsedimentary and immediately post-sedimentary structures; Using fossils as an aid to logging; Illustrations to Chapter 1 |
2 A stratigraphic framework for the Chalk: Southern ProvinceRegional setting; Southern Province Chalk Group; Grey Chalk Subgroup ; White Chalk Subgroup; Illustrations to Chapter 2; 3 A stratigraphic framework for the Chalk: Transitional Province ; Regional setting; The Berkshire Downs and Chiltern Hills; Grey Chalk Subgroup; White Chalk Subgroup; Correlation framework from the Chiltern Hills to East Anglia ; Marker beds in the Chalk beneath London; East Anglia; Illustrations for Chapter 3; 4 Chalk formations and marker beds in the Northern Province of England, onshore and offshore | |
Regional settingNorthern Province Chalk stratigraphy; Grey Chalk Subgroup; White Chalk Subgroup; Key coastal exposures and weathered profiles; North Sea Chalk formations: near-offshore Norfolk to Yorkshire; Weathering and reworking of the Chalk in the immediate offshore; Illustrations for Chapter 4; 5 Central Graben and Northern North Sea Chalks; Regional setting; Stratigraphy of the Chalk in the North Sea; Distributions of formations in the UK sector, Central and Northern North Sea; Lithostratigraphic units; Describing North Sea Chalks; North Sea lithogies and core log representation | |
Illustrations from Chapter 56 Logging the Chalk: styles of weathering found in core and field sections; When should chalk be described as weathered?; Discoloured chalk; Smell; Mechanical breakdown, fracturing and CIRIA grade; Influence of geological setting on weathering of the Chalk; Chalk-Palaeogene contact surface; Chalk beneath the Quaternary; Shallow karst weathering in the Chalk; Deeper karst in the Chalk; Illustrations from Chapter 6; 7 The future; Introduction; Types of camera log: the optical televiewer and the acoustic televiewer; Geophysical borehole wireline logs | |
Formation property logsDiscussion; Conclusions; Illustrations for Chapter 7; References; Further reading; Appendix A: Chalk weathering grades; Appendix B: Describing flint sizes; Flint size; Flint type; Index | |
Sommario/riassunto: | This book is based on the standard lithostratigraphy and method of engineering description of Chalk developed over many years. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Logging the chalk |
ISBN: | 1-68015-984-4 |
1-84995-120-9 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910797801703321 |
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