Heavy Minerals: Methods & Case Histories

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020
• Subjects: actinolite; amphibole; amphiboles; automatization; Bay of Bengal; benthic foraminifera; Brahmaputra River; bulk-sediment geochemistry; bulk-sediment petrography; Carboniferous; chemical indices of weathering; chemical weathering; correlation; Devonian; diagenesis; early-middle Pleistocene transition; epidote; fallacy of laser granulometry; Ganga River; Ganga–Brahmaputra river system; garnet; handbook for laboratory procedures; heavy mineral; heavy mineral point-counting; heavy minerals; heavy-mineral mounts; Himalaya; Himalayan orogen; hydraulic sorting; Indus river; Jurassic; Karakorum; Ladakh-Kohistan arcs; Lanzhou (northern China); mineral chemistry; mineral grains composition; n/a; Nanga Parbat; nontoxic heavy liquids; North Sea; petrography; Pliocene; point counting; provenance; provenance analysis; provenance and plate-tectonic setting; provenance tracers; pyroxene; Raman spectroscopy; recycling; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; relative and absolute abundances; Research and information: general; sampling strategy; sediment; sediment budgets; sedimentary provenance; selective entrainment; semi-automated Raman counting; sieving of fine silt; size-window for analysis; sources; statistics; surface texture; surface textures; suspension sorting; tectonic versus climatic control; the Changjiang Delta; tremolite; Triassic; varietal studies; wet sieving of silt; WNW Portuguese Continental Margin; Yellow River terraces; zircon; zircon separation
• ISBN: 9783039361311; 3039361317; 9783039361304; 3039361309
• DOI: 10.3390/books978-3-03936-131-1

The principal aim of this book is to provide a wide range of information and a useful reference for researchers interested to investigate heavy mineral assemblages in different geological settings and for a variety of purposes. The methodological developments achieved in recent years for the identification of heavy minerals in a wide grain-size range are illustrated. All factors that affect heavy mineral concentration and relative proportions, including hydraulic sorting, mechanical abrasion, chemical weathering, and post-depositional dissolution, and all factors able to introduce analytical, environmental, or diagenetic bias are thoroughly addressed. A proper integration of multiple techniques including bulk sediment, multi-mineral, and single-mineral methods are discussed by renowned authors in their invited contributions.