Phosphate Deposits of the World: Volume 1
Proterozoic and Cambrian Phosphorites

This book is an important contribution to the scientific understanding of phosphate deposits.

P. J. Cook (Edited by), J. H. Shergold (Edited by)

9780521619219, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 17 March 2005

408 pages
29.7 x 20.9 x 2.1 cm, 0.981 kg

This unique survey describes the world's ancient phosphorite deposits on a scale never previously attempted. The International Geological Correlation Programme started Project 156, on world phosphate resources, in 1977. An international team of forty-six researchers describes in twenty-five chapters almost 100 Precambrian or Cambrian deposits of phosphate rock, extending through all continents except Antarctica. The total resources are large, but only a small fraction is minable at present. The data presented give a good understanding of the distribution, nature and origin of phosphate deposits. The book is an important contribution to the scientific understanding of phosphate deposits, as well as a valuable aid to the search for an exploitation of phosphates in many parts of the world.

List of contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
Proterozoic and Cambrian phosphorites
1. An introduction P. J. Cook and J. H. Shergold
2. Regional review: world resources A. J. G. Notholt and R. P. Sheldon
3. Regional review: Australia P. F. Howard
4. Regional review: China Li Yueyan
5. Regional review: Asian part of USSR and Mongolian People's Republic A. L. Yanshin
6. Regional review: Indian subcontinent C. M. Banerjee
7. Regional review: Europe A. J. G. Notholt and M. D. Brasier
8. Regional review: North America R. L. Christie and R. P. Sheldon
9. Regional review: West Africa M. Slansky
10. Regional review: Brazil M. A. Dardenne, R. Trompette, L. F. Magalhaes and L. A. Soares
11. Deposits: Lady Annie, Queensland, Australia P. J. Cook and S. A. Elgueta
12. Deposits: Kunyang, Ynnan, China Yeh Lientsun, Sun Shu, Chen Qiying and Guo Shizeng
13. Deposits: Lao Cai, Vietnam Tran Quoc An and Nguyen Dang Khoa
14. Deposits: Khubsugul, Mongolian People's Republic A. V. Ilyin, N. S. Zaitsev and Z. Bjamba
15. Deposits: Karatau, southern Zazakhstan, USSR E. A. Eganov, Yu. K. Sovetov and A. L. Yanshin
16. Deposits: Hazara, Pakistan Mirza Talib Hasan
17. Deposits: Jhamarkotra, Rajasthan, India R. Choudhuri and A. B. Roy
18. Deposits: Fontanarejo, Spain E. Perconig, F. Vazquez, F. Velando and F. Leyva
19. Deposits: Volta Basin, West Africa J. Lucas, Av. Ilyin and A. Kühn
20. Specialist studies: chemical and mineral characteristics of some Cambrian and Precambrian phosphorites G. H. McClellan and F. N. Saavedra
21. Specialist studies: geochemistry of organic matter in Middle Cambrian phosphorites from the Georgina Basin, north-eastern Australia M. W. Sandstrom
22. Specialist studies: Early Cambrian palaeogeography, palaeoceanography and phosphorites J. T. Parrish, A. M. Ziegler, C. R. Scotese, R. G. Humphreville and J. K. Kirschvink
23. Specialist studies: biochronology of Proterozoic and Cambrian phosphorites J. H. Shergold and M. D. Brasier
24. Specialist studies: Middle Cambrian phosphatic hardgrounds, phoscrete profiles and stromatolites, and their implications for phosphogenesis P. N. Southgate
25. Specialist studies: phosphogenesis and its relationship to exploration for Proterozoic and Cambrian phosphorites S. R. Riggs
26. Nature and origin P. J. Cook and J. H. Shergold
Conclusions
References.

Subject Areas: Stratigraphy [RBGH]