Organic MatterJean K. WhelanLabel: Columbia University PressDescription: Sediments from the world's ocean floors and other water body basins hold a wealth of information about organic life as we know it. Organic Matter: Productivity Accumulation and Preservation in Recent and Ancient Sediments addresses focusing on the production accumulation and preservation of organic matter in marine and lacustrine sediments. Contributors to this important monograph cover a range of geologic ages from recent times back to the Permian Era as well as temperature and organic matter types. This resource book will be of interest and benefit to petroleum explorationists and researchers as well as oceanographers marine and environmental scientists sedimentologists geochemists and paleontologists.
