As stated in its Preface, this book "is an outgrowth of an annual seminar delivered to Industrial Associates of the Applied Carbonate Research Program for the past 12 years at LSU, Baton Rouge and of a number of public short courses given in the USA and Europe under the auspices of Oil and Gas Consultants, Tulsa, OK." The point is that this volume is not only about carbonates, carbonate diagenesis, and carbonate porosity, but it casts the facts, concepts, and ideas about them within the context of subsurface carbonate oil and gas reservoirs. Note that Moore has produced several updated editions to the volume, with the 2013 version providing an insightful and applied sequence stratigraphic context for these facts, concepts, and ideas. The original book consists of nine chapters that detail the topics of carbonate depositional systems, carbonate porosity origin and classification, the many diagenetic environments including normal and evaporative marine, meteoric, dolomitizing, shallow and deep burial. There is also discussion of the tools and analytical procedures to determine diagenetic processes. Most importantly, the volume provides hydrocarbon subsurface reservoir and field examples for each of the concepts presented in the chapters. The book contains many of the classic line-drawing illustrations and photomicrographs we have all come to recognize and use concerning carbonate diagenetic processes and resulting pore types. For all petroleum industry practitioners working carbonate assets, this volume gets you up the learning curve quicker than other texts.
Moore, C.H., 1989, Carbonate Diagenesis and Porosity, Developments in Sedimentology 46: Elsevier, New York, 338 p.
Jim Markello and Bill Morgan
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