Sedimentary Petrology

Authoritative, accessible, and updated introduction to sedimentary rocks for undergraduate students

Sedimentary Petrology provides readers with a concise account of sedimentary rock composition, mineralogy, texture, structure, diagenesis, and depositional environments. The new edition of this classic text incorporates the many technological and analytical advances of the last decade, revealing exciting details of processes such as microbial precipitation, how microporosity is created within mudrocks, and the chemical composition of foraminifera deposits, which can be a key indicator for changing seawater temperature.

This fourth edition offers a comprehensive update and expansion of the previous editions with a new set of illustrations, new references, and further reading. The new co-author Stuart Jones has brought his considerable expertise in clastic sedimentology to the rewritten chapters on sandstones and mudrocks. The addition of color images throughout the text will aid students immensely in their studies and petrographic fieldwork.

Sample topics covered in Sedimentary Petrology include:

• Advances in modeling and programming to simulate depositional-diagenetic conditions and controls which support field-lab descriptions and interpretations
• Ocean acidification and the demise of coral reefs, and the role of the oceans in carbon capture and storage
• Sedimentary ironstones and iron-formations, sedimentary phosphate deposits, coal, oil shale and petroleum, and cherts and siliceous sediments
• Limestones, evaporites, volcaniclastic sediments, sandstones, conglomerates, breccias, and the effects of microplastics on marine organisms

Aimed at undergraduates in geology and earth science, Sedimentary Petrology is an excellent teaching and learning resource for introductory courses in sedimentary rocks.

Maurice E. Tucker graduated from Durham University and obtained his PhD from the University of Reading. He spent nearly 30 years at Durham University and is now a Visiting Professor at the University of Bristol.

Stuart J. Jones graduated in Geology from Aberystwyth University and received his PhD from the University of Reading. He is currently an Associate Professor of Sedimentology at Durham University.

1 INTRODUCTION: BASIC CONCEPTS AND APPROACH
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Basic Concepts
1.3 Methodology

2 SILICICLASTIC SEDIMENTS I: SANDSTONES, CONGLOMERATES AND BRECCIAS
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Sediment Texture
2.3 Sedimentary Structures
2.4 Palaeocurrent Analysis
2.5 Detrital Components of Siliciclastic Sediments
2.6 Classification of Siliciclastic Sediments
2.7 Petrography and Origin of Principal Sandstone Types
2.8 Sandstone Composition, Provenance and Tectonic Setting
2.9 Sandstone Diagenesis
2.10 Porosity and Permeability
2.11 Sediment Routing Systems
2.12 Depositional Environments of Sandstones and Coarser Clastics
2.13 Facies Sequences, Controls and Sequence Stratigraphy

3 SILICILASTIC SEDIMENTS II: MUDROCKS
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Textures and Structures of Mudrocks
3.3 The Colour of Mudrocks
3.4 Mineral Constitutents of Mudrocks
3.5 The Formation and Distribution of Clay Minerals in Modern Sediments
3.6 Diagenesis of Clay Minerals and Mudrocks
3.7 Mudrocks and Their Depositional Environments

4 CARBONATE SEDIMENTS: LIMESTONES AND DOLOMITES
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Techniques for the Study of Carbonate Sediments
4.3 Mineralogy of Carbonate Sediments
4.4 Carbonate Production and Factories
4.5 Components of Carbonate Rocks
4.6 Classification of Limestones
4.7 Limestone Grain-Size and Texture
4.8 Sedimentary Structures of Limestones
4.9 Carbonate Diagenesis
4.10 Dolomitisation and Dedolomitisation
4.11 Silification of Limestones
4.12 Porosity in Carbonate Sediments
4.13 Carbonate Depositional Environments and Facies
4.14 Carbonate Sequence Stratigraphy and Forward Modelling

5 EVAPORITES
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Evaporite Deposits and Depositional Environments
5.3 Gypsum and Anhydrite
5.4 Halite
5.5 Other Evaporite Minerals and Their Occurrence
5.6 Evaporite Dissolution and Replacment
5.7 Evaporite Sequences and Discussion
5.8 Evaporites Through Time
5.9 Evaporites, Diapirism, Deformation and Decollement

6 SEDIMENTARY IRONSTONES AND IRON-FORMATIONS
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Source and Transportation of Iron
6.3 Formation of the Principal Iron Minerals
6.4 Occurrence and Petrography of Iron Minerals
6.5 Precambrian Iron-Formations and Phanerozoic Ironstones
6.6 Bog Iron Ores
6.7 Ferromangenese Nodules and Crusts, and Metalliferous Sediments

7 SEDIMENTARY PHOSPHATE DEPOSITS
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Mineralogy
7.3 Nodular and Bedded Phosphorites
7.4 Bioclastic and Pebble-Bed Phosphorites
7.5 Guano and Ocean-Island Phosphorites

8 COAL AND PETROLEUM
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Modern Organic Deposits
8.3 Ancient Organic Deposits
8.4 Coal and the Coal Series
8.5 Coal Petrology
8.6 Coal Formation and Rank
8.7 Occurrence of Coal
8.8 Formation of Kerogen
8.9 Petroleum

9 CHERTS AND SILICEOUS SEDIMENTS
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Chert Petrology
9.3 Bedded Chert
9.4 Nodular Chert
9.5 Non-Marine Siliceous Sediment and Chert

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