Sedimentology of Shale
Sedimentology of Shale
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DOI：
10.1007/978-1-4612-9981-3
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发表时间：
1980-12
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通讯作者：
P. E. Potter;J. Maynard;W. Pryor
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作者：
P. E. Potter;J. Maynard;W. Pryor
我们写页岩沉积学主要是因为我们缺乏一个方便的，合理的全面的信息来源和思想的页岩为学生在我们的沉积学计划。我们也认为，页岩接受更多研究的时机终于到来了。页岩的沉积学也似乎非常及时，因为今天更多的沉积学家对页岩感兴趣。当然，在过去的五年里，页岩研究的步伐并没有加快，因为页岩作为石油、天然气、重金属的重要来源以及作为地球地质历史中长期未被研究的一部分的作用已经得到了承认。值得注意的进展包括阐明了页岩中遗迹化石的重要性，在墨西哥湾沿岸等地区发现了超压页岩的厚层序列，（对油气运移和断裂作用有重要意义），通过对页岩中有机质的研究，将变质相原理扩展到低温成岩作用领域，和页岩作为矿床的最终来源。因此，我们决定写一本关于页岩的书是及时的。然而，在某一方面，我们的书是一本不寻常的书。大多数地质学书籍都是在一个领域取得了一、二十年的进展之后出版的，并试图总结和评价这些进展。
We wrote Sedimentology of Shale primarily because we lacked a handy, reasonably comprehensive source of information and ideas about shales for students in our sedimentology program. It was also our feeling that the time for shales to receive more study had finally arrived. Sedimentology of Shale also seems very timely because today more sedimentologists are interested in shales. Certainly in the last five years the pace of shale research has no ticeably quickened because the role of shales as important sources of oil, gas, heavy metals and as a long understudied part of the earth's geologic his tory has been recognized. Noteworthy developments include the elucida tion of the importance of trace fossils in shales, the discovery of thick sequences of overpressured shales in regions such as the Gulf Coast (which have important implications for hydrocarbon migration and faulting), the ex tension of the principles of metamorphic facies to the realm of low tempera ture diagenesis by study of the organic matter in shales, and shales as ul timate sources for mineral deposits. Accordingly, we decided it was timely to write a book on shales. In one respect, however, ours is an unusual book. Most books in geology are produced after one or two decades of progress have been made in a field and attempt to summarize and evaluate that progress.