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"A sound understanding of the global carbon cycle requires an appreciation of the various physico-chemical and biological processes that determine the production, distribution, deposition and diagenesis of organic matter in the natural environment. This book is a comprehensive inter-disciplinary synthesis of this information, coupled with an ""organic facies"" approach based on data from both microscopy and bulk organic geochemistry. The emphasis is mainly on marine environments, with information from Recent, Quaternary and Ancient sediments used to establish the key controls on the distribution, preservation and accumulation of both the total sedimentary organic matter and a wide range of more specific terrestrial and algal particulate components. The primary applications are geological (reconstruction of ancient depositional environments and the assessment of hydrocarbon potential), but oceanographers, limnologists and ecologists should also find it to be relevant to their work. This book should be of interest to organic geochemists, palynologists, marine geologists, sedimentologists, petroleum geologists, and oceanographers."

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Author:   R. Tyson
Publisher:   Chapman and Hall
Imprint:   Chapman and Hall
Edition:   and ed.
Weight:   1.720kg
ISBN:  

9780412363504

ISBN 10:   041236350
Pages:   615
Publication Date:   31 December 1994
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1 Introduction: The importance of sedimentary organic matter.- 2 The nature of organic matter in sediments.- 3 Production and delivery flux of planktonic organic matter.- 4 Biological degradation and consumption of organic matter.- 5 Abundance of organic matter in sediments: TOC, hydrodynamic equivalence, dilution and flux effects.- 6 Organic matter preservation: the effects of oxygen deficiency.- 7 Origin and nature of the Phytoclast Group.- 8 Origin and nature of the Amorphous Group.- 9 Origin and nature of the Palynomorph Group, Phytoplankton Subgroup.- 10 Origin and nature of the Zoomorph Subgroup, and the origin, nature and distribution of the Zooclast Group.- 11 Distribution of the Phytoclast Group.- 12 Distribution of the Amorphous Group.- 13 Distribution of the Palynomorph Group: Sporomorph Subgroup.- 14 Distribution of the Palynomorph Group: Phytoplankton Subgroup, marine dinoflagellate cysts (dinocysts).- 15 Distribution of the Palynomorph Group: Phytoplankton Subgroup, marine prasinophyte phycomata.- 16 Distribution of the Palynomorph Group: Phytoplankton Subgroup, chlorococcale algae.- 17 Distribution of the Palynomorph Group: Phytoplankton Subgroup, Acritarcha.- 18 Distribution of the Palynomorph Group: Phytoplankton Subgroup, cyanobacteria and Rhodophyta.- 19 Distribution of the Palynomorph Group: Zoomorph Subgroup.- 20 Palynological kerogen classification.- 21 Bulk geochemical characterization and classification of organic matter: elemental analysis and pyrolysis.- 22 Bulk geochemical characterization and classification of organic matter: carbon:nitrogen ratios and lignin-derived phenols.- 23 Bulk geochemical characterization and classification of organic matter: stable carbon isotopes (?13C).- 24 Palynofacies in a sequence stratigraphic context.- 25Some practical aspects of palynofacies analysis.- Appendix A Density of particulate organic matter and kerogen and some associated materials.- Appendix C Carbon:nitrogen weight ratios of organic matter and some Recent and ancient sediments.- Appendix D Prasinophyte occurrences in dysoxic—anoxic facies of Silurian to Quaternary age (in stratigraphic order).

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...'Encyclopedic'...As the author states in the preface, this work aims to fulfil the need for a synthesis of our current state of knowledge regarding 'the origin, early diagenesis, character, distribution and bulk geochemical composition of sedimentary organic matter' The aim has been acheived admirably...a timely addition for all those involved in the fields of palynological, sedimentological and environmental analyses and hydrocarbon exploration, and should successfully appeal to a wider audience of geological and environmental scientists, especially incoming research students. Sedimentary Organic Matter is surely destined to become a standard reference text for many years to come - Geoscientistn; ...certainly worth purchasing... - Geological Magazine

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