{ "item_title" : "The Applied Carbonate Microfacies Handbook", "item_author" : [" Toby A. McKinney", "Rufus S. Herzberg "], "item_description" : "From the Microscope to the Resource Estimate - FULL COLOR IMAGESA single thin section can reveal where a shoal built up, how deep a rock has been buried, and whether a reservoir interval is likely to flow - but only if the person examining it can read every layer of evidence packed into a few square centimeters of glass and rock. Carbonate rocks are unusually rich in this kind of evidence: their grains, cements, and fabrics record both the environment that made them and everything that has happened to them since. That richness is also the trap. Much of the existing literature on this subject is organized around isolated pieces of the picture - a petrographic atlas here, a diagenesis monograph there, a reservoir-engineering reference somewhere else - leaving students and working professionals to assemble their own understanding across sources with different notation, different vocabulary, and different depth of coverage.This eighteen-chapter handbook, organized into five connected parts, was written to close that gap. It carries a reader from the optical fundamentals of thin-section examination through diagenetic reconstruction, depositional-system interpretation, sequence stratigraphy, and applied reservoir and resource evaluation, using one consistent notation and one connected line of argument from first observation to final conclusion.Work through this handbook and you will be able to: Apply a disciplined four-stage workflow - observation, description, classification, interpretation - that keeps an early, unsupported conclusion from quietly shaping every observation that follows.Build a precise descriptive vocabulary for grains, cements, and fabrics, apply standard rock-classification methods, and recognize preparation or drilling artifacts before they are mistaken for genuine geological features.Reconstruct a rock's complete diagenetic history, from early marine alteration through burial compaction, cementation, and dolomitization to its final pore-system character.Assemble individual observations into depositional-system models and a sequence-stratigraphic framework spanning platforms, ramps, reefs, slopes, and basins.Apply petrophysical rock-typing methods, calculate original hydrocarbon volumes, and work through a full probabilistic low, best-estimate, and high resource assessment.Extend the same workflow to groundwater aquifer characterization and geologic carbon-storage evaluation, and apply digital image analysis and automated point-counting methods alongside traditional microscope technique.Major topics include thin-section optical technique and sampling method, grain and fabric description, diagenesis and dolomitization, porosity and permeability evolution, depositional-system and sequence-stratigraphic synthesis, integrated reservoir and resource evaluation, and digital petrography and quality control, supported throughout by fully worked examples, practice problems with a complete answer key, and a full reference apparatus of appendices, a glossary, and an index. It is written for the student examining a thin section for the first time, the upper-level student preparing for independent research, and the practicing geologist, reservoir engineer, hydrogeologist, or carbon-storage professional who needs one technically rigorous reference spanning petrography through applied resource assessment.Begin building a clearer, more defensible understanding of carbonate rocks with a handbook designed to carry that understanding all the way from the microscope to the resource estimate - get your copy and start building a structured, defensible foundation in carbonate rock analysis.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers2.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/819/140/9798191407289_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "220.00", "online_price" : "220.00", "our_price" : "220.00", "club_price" : "220.00", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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