Chemical and mineral compositions of sedimentary deposits and magmatic rocks from DSDP Legs 41, 45, 48, and 49

This collective monography by a group of lithologists from the Geological Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences summarizes materials of the Deep-Sea Drilling Project from the Atlantic Ocean. It gives results of processing materials on the sequences drilled during DSDP Legs 41, 45, 48 and 49. These studies were based on lithological-facial analysis combined with detailed mineralogical-petrographic description. Its chapters give a number of ideas on formation of the Earth sedimentary cover, which can be used for compilation of regional and global schemes of ocean paleogeography, reconstruction of history of some structures in the World Ocean, correlation between sedimentary processes on continents and in oceans, estimation of perspectives for oil and gas fields and ore formation.

苏联科学院地质研究所岩石学团队编撰的这部集体专著，系统总结了大西洋海域深海钻探计划（Deep-Sea Drilling Project, DSDP）的相关调查资料。该书梳理并呈现了DSDP第41、45、48及49航次所钻取沉积序列的资料处理成果。该项研究以岩相分析为基础方法，结合了详细的矿物学-岩石学描述。本书各章节针对地球沉积盖层的形成机制提出了诸多学术见解，可用于编制区域及全球海洋古地理方案、重建世界大洋部分构造单元的演化历史、对比大陆与海洋的沉积作用过程，以及评估油气田勘探前景与成矿作用潜力。