Volume 7. Sediments, Diagenesis, and Sedimentary Rocks

"The editor and publisher should be commended for the excellent physical production of the book. The chapters are well illustrated and typographical errors are almost absent. All illustrations and photos (except for the out of focus SEM photos in chapter 8) are in black and white and are clear (three photomicrographs are in color), and the tables are easy to read. This book will serve researchers and graduate students well as a reference book on several diverse topics in sediment geochemistry." (Miriam Kastner, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, USA)

Fred T. Mackenzie
Professor, Sedimentary and Global Geochemistry
Department of Oceanography
School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology
University of Hawaii at Manoa
1000 Pope Road
Honolulu, HI 96822
USA
E-mail: fredm@soest.hawaii.edu

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Volume 7 covers the formation and biogeochemistry of a variety of important sediment types from their initial formation through their conversion (diagenesis) to sedimentary rocks. The volume deals with the chemical, mineralogical, and isotopic properties of sediments and sedimentary rocks and their use in interpreting the environment of formation and subsequent events in the history of sediments, and the nature of the ocean-atmosphere system through geological time. The volume includes information on the mineralogy and chemistry of modern marine sediments; marine pore water chemistry and the recycling of biogenic material at the sea floor; carbonate and siliceous sediment biogeochemistry and diagenesis; the formation and geochemistry of Precambrian cherts and their use in deciphering the temperature history of the early Earth; geochemistry of fine-grained sediments and sedimentary rocks; diagenesis and mass transfer in sandstone-shale sequences and importance to crustal CO2 production; organic diagenesis, biomarkers, and formation and geochemistry of coal, oil, and gas; sulfur- and manganese-rich sediment biogeochemistry; the origin and geochemistry of the "green minerals" of glauconite, etc.; the relationship between the biogeochemistry of the environment and mass extinction events; fossil-based- radio-, and magnetic field-chronometry, and chorology of sediments and sedimentary rocks; the secular evolution and recycling of sediments and the evolution of the ocean-atmosphere system as deduced from biogeochemical and isotopic features in sedimentary rocks.

Introduction: Fred T. Mackenzie
1. Chemical Composition and Mineralogy of Marine Sediments: Yuan-Hui (Telu) Li, Jane S. Schoonmaker
2. Geochemistry of Fine-Grained Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks: Bradley B. Sageman, Timothy W. Lyons
3. The Recycling of Biogenic Material at the Sea Floor: William R. Martin, Frederick L. Sayles
4. Green Clay Minerals: Bruce Velde
5. Late Diagenesis and Mass Transfer in Sandstone-Shale Sequences: Kitty L. Milliken
6. Formation and Diagenesis of Carbonate Sediments: John W. Morse
7. The Diagenesis of Biogenic Silica: Chemical Transformations Occurring in the Water Column, Seabed and Crust: David J. DeMaster
8. Formation and Geochemistry of Precambrian Cherts: Eugene C. Perry, Liliana Lefticariu
9. Coal Formation and Geochemistry: Robert B. Finkelman, William H. Orem
10. Formation and Geochemistry of Oil and Gas: R. Paul Philp
11. Manganiferous Sediments, Rocks, and Ores: J. Barry Maynard
12. Sulfur-rich Sediments: Martin B. Goldhaber
13. The Geochemistry of Mass Extinction: Lee R. Kump
14. Chronometry of Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks: William B.N. Berry
15. Evolution of Sedimentary Rocks: Jan Veizer, Fred T. Mackenzie