Sediments and Environmental Geochemistry: Selected Aspects and Case Histories

ISBN-13: 9783642750991 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 371 str.

Dietrich Heling; Peter Rothe; Ulrich F. Rstner

Opis

Sediments and Environmental Geochemistry is dedicated to Professor German Muller on the occasion of his 60th birthday. The individual articles, written by outstanding scientists, cover a wide range of subjects indicating the broad spectrum of his interests. The main topics are: Carbonate and Evaporite Petrology, Petroleum Formation and Exploration, Environmental Geochemistry, Coal Petrography, Data Bases in Geosciences, and Volcanology."

Spis treści

I: Geology.- Thoughts on the Growth of Stratiform Stylolites in Buried Limestones..- Anthracite and Concentrations of Alkaline Feldspar (Microcline) in Flat-Lying Undeformed Paleozoic Strata: A Key to Large-Scale Vertical Crustal Uplift..- Sediments on Volcanic Islands — On the Importance of the Exception..- Fallout Tephra Layers: Composition and Significance..- Isotope Geochemistry of Primary and Secondary Carbonate Minerals in the Shaban-Deep (Red Sea)..- Biogenic Constituents, Cement Types, and Sedimentary Fabrics..- The Southern Permian Basin and its Paleogeography..- Integrated Hydrocarbon Exploration Concepts in the Sedimentary Basins of West Germany..- Sedimentological and Petrophysical Aspects of Primary Petroleum Migration Pathways..- The Influence of Subrosion on Three Different Types of Salt Deposits..- Particle Size Distribution of Saliferous Clays in the German Zechstein..- Mineralogical and Petrographic Studies on the Anhydritmittelsalz (Leine Cycle z3) in the Gorleben Salt Dome..- Lacustrine Paper Shales in the Permocarboniferous Saar-Nahe Basin (West Germany) — Depositional Environment and Chemical Characterization..- “Search for Poyang Lake and China” … “get 7 Hits” Information Management in Environmental Sedimentology..- Microbial Modification of Sedimentary Surface Structures..- II: Environmental Geochemistry.- The Pollution of the River Rhine with Heavy Metals..- Interactions of Naturally Occurring Aqueous Solutions with the Lower Toarcian Oil Shale of South Germany..- Sediment Criteria Development — Contributions from Environmental Geochemistry to Water Quality Management..- Transport of Matter in Sediments: A Discussion..- Pathways of Fine-Grained Clastic Sediments — Examples from the Amazon, the Weser Estuary, and the North Sea..

O autorze

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Ulrich Förstner studierte Geologie und Mineralogie in Tübingen und arbeitete ab 1972 als Dozent und apl. Professor an der Fakultät für Geowissenschaften der Universität Heidelberg. Von 1982-2005 leitete er den Arbeitsbereich Umweltschutztechnik an der Technischen Universität Hamburg-Harburg. Mit über fünfzig Forschungsprojekten, zahlreichen Mitgliedschaften in nationalen und internationalen Fachgremien und mit 16 Büchern war er an den wesentlichen Entwicklungen auf dem Gebiet des Gewässer- und Bodenschutzes seit Ende der sechziger Jahre beteiligt. Peter Rothe, geboren 1936, em. Professor für Geologie der Universität Mannheim, arbeitet an den Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen in Mannheim. Zahlreiche Veröffentlichungen.