Heavy Minerals: Methods & Case Histories

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