Evaporites A Geological Compendium /

• Main Author: Warren, John K. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Edition: 2nd ed. 2016.
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Mineral resources.; Sedimentology.; Hydrogeology.; Geoecology.; Environmental geology.; Earth Sciences.; Mineral Resources.; Geoecology/Natural Processes.

The monograph offers a comprehensive discussion of the role of evaporites in hydrocarbon generation and trapping, and new information on low temperature and high temperature ores. It also provides a wealth of information on exploitable salts, in a comprehensive volume has been assembled and organize...

Table of Contents:

• Interpreting evaporite textures
• Depositional chemistry and hydrology
• Sabkhas, saline mudflats and pans
• Subaqueous salts: salinas and perennial lakes
• Ancient basins and stratigraphic evolution
• Flowing salt: Halokinesis
• Pointers to vanished evaporites: Karst, breccia, nodules and cement
• Hypersaline fluid evolution during burial and uplift
• Halotolerant life in feast or famine (a source of hydrocarbons and a fixer of metals)
• Hydrocarbons and evaporites
• Potash resources: Occurrences and controls
• Non-Potash Salts: Borates, Na-sulphates, Na-carbonate, lithium salts, gypsum, halite and zeolites
• Solution mining and salt cavern usage
• Meta-evaporites
• Lower temperature metals in evaporitic frameworks
• Magma-evaporite-hydrothermal metal associations.