William C. Burnett / Stanley R. Riggs (eds.)

Phosphate Deposits of the World

Volume 3, Neogene to Modern Phosphorites
Herausgeber: Burnett, William C.; William C., Burnett; Riggs, Stanley R.

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the environmental setting and resulting phosphorites which formed during the Miocene period.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 484
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 297mm x 210mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 1244g
• ISBN-13: 9780521034180
• ISBN-10: 0521034183
• Artikelnr.: 22527443

Inhaltsangabe

List of contributors; Preface; Part I. The Modern Setting: 1. Upwelling
processes associated with Western Boundary Currents; 2. Diagenesis of
phosphorus in sediments from non-upwelling areas; 3. Organic matter in
Modern marine phosphatic sediments from the Peruvian continental margin; 4.
Pore water, petrologic and stable carbon isotopic data bearing on the
origin of Modern Peru margin phosphorites and associated authigenic phases;
5. Phosphorite growth and sediment dynamics in the Modern Peru shelf
upwelling system; Part II. Modern and Neogene Phosphorites and Associated
Sediments: 6. Occurrence of dolomite in Neogene phosphatic sediments; 7.
Organic geochemistry of phosphorites: relative behaviors of phosphorus and
nitrogen during the formation of humic compounds in phosphate-bearing
sequences; 8. Neogene to Holocene phosphorites of Australia; 9. Miocene
phosphorites of Cuba; 10. Phosphorite deposits in the Upper Oligocene, San
Gregorio Formation at San Juan de la Costa, Baja California Sur, Mexico;
11. Phosphates in West and Central Africa - the problem of Neogene and
Recent formations; 12. Phosphorite deposits on the Namibian continental
shelf; 13. Phosphorite deposits on the South African continental margin and
coastal terrace; 14. Moroccan offshore phosphorite deposits; 15. Neogene
phosphorites of the Sea of Japan; 16. Physical and chemical properties of
the phosphate deposit on Nauru, western equatorial Pacific Ocean; 17. The
submerged phosphate deposit of Mataiva Atoll, French Polynesia; Part III.
The Neogene Environment: 18. Paleoceanographic and paleoclimatic controls
of the temporal and geographic distribution of Upper Cenozoic continental
margin phosphorites; 19. Paleoceanographic and paleoclimatic setting of the
Miocene phosphogenic episode; 20. Isotopic evidence for temperature and
productivity in the Tertiary oceans; 21. Climate model evidence for
variable continental precipitation and its significance for phosphorite
formation; 22. Neogene geochemical cycles: implications concerning
phosphogenesis; Part IV. Neogene Phosphorites of California and the
Southeastern USA: 23. Miocene phosphogenesis in California; 24. The role of
bacterial mats in phosphate mineralization with particular reference to the
Monterey Formation; 25. Coupled changes of oxygen isotopes in PO3/4- and
CO2/3- in apatite, with emphasis on the Monterey Formation, California; 26.
The lithostratigraphy of the Hawthorn Group of peninsular Florida; 27. Clay
mineralogy of the phosphorites of the southeastern United States; 28.
Paleoceanography and paleogeography of the Miocene of the southeastern
United States; 29. Carolina continental margin: Part I. Stratigraphic
framework for cyclical deposition of Miocene sediments in the Carolina
Phosphogenic Province; 30. Carolina continental margin: Part II. The
seismic stratigraphic record of shifting Gulf Stream flow paths in response
to Miocene glacio-eustacy: implications for phosphogenesis along the North
Carolina continental margin; 31. Carolina continental margin: Part III.
Patterns of phosphate deposition and lithofacies relationships within the
Miocene Pungo River Formation, North Carolina continental margin; 32.
Carolina continental margin: Part IV. Relationships between benthic
foraminiferal assemblages and Neogene phosphatic sediments; North Carolina
coastal plain and continental shelf.