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Carbonate Sediments and Rocks by C.R. Braithwaite, Whittles Publishing 2005, £40, hardback, 196pp. ISBN: 1-870325-39-7

C.R. Stelck Professor in Petroleum Geology United Kingdom

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This is a small format book (25 x 17.5 cm) that contains 141 pages of text and 10 pages of colour photographs. The book is divided into 16 chapters that range in length from 2.5 to 21 pages. Thus, some topics receive only brief attention whereas others contain a considerable amount of information. Chapters 1 to 9 cover the basic aspects of carbonate sediments and rocks with overviews on their mineralogy, depositional environments, classification systems, diagenesis, dolomites, and calcretes. Chapters 10 and 11 deal with karst development and hydrology whereas . . . [Full Text of this Article]