Environment of calcium carbonate deposition west of Andros Island, Bahamas /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cloud, Preston, 1912-1991 (Author)
Format: Government Document Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington : United States Department of the Interior, Geological Survey, 1962.
Series:Geological Survey professional paper ; 350.
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Online Access:CONNECT
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Item Description:Title from title screen (viewed September 30, 2014).
"With sections on Mechanical characteristics of the sediments, by Paul D. Blackmon; Microbiology and biochemistry of sediments and overlaying water, by Frederick D. Sisler; Chemical analysis of the water, by Henry Kramer; The problem of calcium determination in sea water, by James H. Carpenter; Experimental consolidation of calcium carbonate sediment, by Eugene C. Robertson, Lynn R. Sykes and Marcia Newell.
"A study of the sediments, waters, general ecology, precipitation mechanisms, and early diagenesis in an environment considered comparable to those in which some ancient aphanitic and pelletal limestone originated."
Physical Description:1 online resource (vi, 138 pages, 10 unnumbered plates) : illustrations, maps.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 126-132) and index.