Publisher's Synopsis
Many of the major oil producing provinces of the world are coincident with regions of former evaporite deposition. Because of this correlation, geologists and geophysicists involved in exploration and basin analysis require a sound working knowledge of evaporites, and there are instances where evaporites are so intimately associated with hydrocarbon reservoirs that their physicochemical properties need to be understood by reservoir engineers. This book gives emphasis to the fundamental mineralogy and petrology of the most important group of evaporites (both in economic and volumetric terms), and discusses the wide variety of processes involved in their deposition and diagenetic evolution. The book should be essential reading for all earth scientists concerned with evaporite sedimentation and oil exploration.;This book should be of interest to postgraduates and more senior workers engaged in research and exploration in sedimentary geology, basin analysis and geophysics; those searching for and exploiting hydrocarbon reserves.
