Quantitative Methods in Stratigraphy: A Multi-Proxy Palaeoenvironmental Analysis of Outcrop and Core Data explores the current advances in technology, offering a wide range of quantitative geophysical, geochemical, and spectral methods, which are less expensive, timesaving, and often non-destructive. The book first outlines the main principles and applications of stratigraphy and paleoenvironmental analysis. Chapters then work methodically through quantitative data in stratigraphy, gamma-ray methods, magnetic susceptibility and magnetometry, and diffuse reflectance spectroscopy. Near infrared (NIR) and Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy as well as energy-dispersive X-ray fluorescence (EDXRF) spectroscopy are reviewed in- depth.
With the wide range of now affordable quantitative methods, high-resolution sampling, and large datasets available across strata, outcrop research can offer unprecedented potential for outcrop-to-core-to-well log correlation, and subsequent (paleo)environmental analysis while keeping data reproducibility at a high level.
This book serves as a useful reference guide for geoscientists, academicians, and researchers, helping them keep pace with advances in technology and instrumentation and conduct state-of-the-art research in geosciences.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction2. Lithology as a Basis for Stratigraphy and Paleoenvironmental Analysis
3. Stratigraphy: Basic Principles and Concepts
4. Proxy Methods in Stratigraphy
5. Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy Methods
6. Magnetic Susceptibility Methods
7. Colour and Visible-Light Spectroscopy Methods
8. Infrared Spectroscopy Methods
9. X-ray Fluorescence Spectroscopy Methods
10. Multi-Proxy Stratigraphic Analysis
