Mud and Mudstones
Subtitle: Introduction and Overview
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: June 8, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9783540221579
Subjects: Geological surface processes (geomorphology); Science/Mathematics; Mud; Science; Sediments (Geology); Earth Sciences - Geology; Burial and Basins; Marine Geology; Paleoecology; Petroleum Geology; Science / Geology; Mudstone
First sentence: Detrital fine-grained sediments, all those composed of 50 percent or more of particles smaller than 62 micrometers, include terrigenous mud and mudstone, carbonate mud (micrite) and micstone and silt and siltstone plus deep sea ooze and sapropel.