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Ingeokring <strong>News</strong><strong>letter</strong><br />
Book review:<br />
Carbonate Sediments and Rocks. A Manual for Earth Scientists and Engineers,<br />
Colin Braithwaite<br />
Peter Verhoef, Royal Boskalis Westminster nv<br />
This book is written to fulfil the need felt for an undergraduate<br />
text on carbonate rocks for geologists and earth scientists<br />
working within the field of geotechnical and applied<br />
engineering. The author believes that it might also be useful<br />
for engineers and non-specialists working in the petroleum<br />
and minerals industries. However, I think that most engineers<br />
or non-specialists would find it hard to work through<br />
this book since a lot of basic and also more advanced knowledge<br />
of geology is assumed. Yet, for geologists or engineering<br />
geologists this book of only 164 pages contains a lot of<br />
information.<br />
To learn something from this book, you do have to read the<br />
complete text of these chapters. It is not possible to divert to<br />
the colour plates in the middle of the book or to the graphs,<br />
tables or illustrations, scan some text, and grasp what is<br />
going on. But not to worry, the chapters are short and the<br />
writing is concise and economic. The author succeeds in<br />
sharing his decade’s long experience of working and researching<br />
carbonate rocks. For me, the main importance of<br />
this book lies in the chapters outlining carbonate geology.<br />
The applied chapters, from 13 onwards, are less illuminating<br />
for practicing engineering geologists.<br />
The subjects treated can best be indicated by listing the<br />
chapters of the book:<br />
• The Mineralogy and Compositions of Carbonate Rocks<br />
and Sediments<br />
• Characteristics of Carbonate Sediments<br />
• Marine Carbonate Environments<br />
• Evaporites Associated with Carbonates<br />
• Continental Carbonate Environments<br />
• Classification of Carbonate sediments and Rocks<br />
• Carbonate Diagenesis: from Sediment to Rock<br />
• Dolomites<br />
• Calcrete<br />
• Limestones, Dolomites and Karst<br />
• Karst Hydrogeology<br />
• Engineering Properties of Carbonate Sediments and<br />
Rocks<br />
• Methods of Extraction of Carbonate Sediments and<br />
Rocks<br />
• Engineering Case Histories: The Hazards of Karst<br />
• Hydrocarbons, Mineral Deposits and Carbonates<br />
• Carbonates and Conservation<br />
Grain size fractions resulting from mechanical breakdown and biological<br />
breakdown (bio-erosion) in reef systems (Figure 2.13 of the book).<br />
<strong>Dam</strong> <strong>edition</strong> | Double Issue 2007/2008 | 77
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