Abstract
There can be no doubt that economic applications of sedimentology are most important in the coal and hydrocarbon industries, with a large number of specialists being employed, particularly by the oil companies. The laboratories of these companies have produced much important research and in some countries, chiefly the USA and Canada, there is a healthy cross-fertilisation between company and university. The concentration of organic matter to form coal, oil or natural gas is a process which involves almost all of the subdisciplines of sedimentology, with overlaps into many other chemical and biological fields.
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Leeder, M.R. (1982). Hydrocarbons. In: Sedimentology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5986-6_31
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