Phanerozoic Phosphorite Depositional Systems : A Dynamic Model for a Sedimentary Resource System (Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences)

The book presents a new and comprehensive model for the development of phosphate sediments. Starting with geochemistry and including new methods in sedimentology (sequence stratigraphy), it results in an interdisciplinary approach to a resource system covering all fields of phosphate geology. For researchers, teachers and students alike the book offers a complete overview of the whole field including case studies of major deposits. Phosphorus in nature: What's this all about.- Phosphate minerals and sediments.- The processes: Phosphogenesis and phosphorite genesis.- Phosphorite deposystems.- Phosphorite deposystems through the Phanerozoic.