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[[File:Thin-section-analysis fig2.png |thumbnail|600px|Figure 1. Folk<ref name=pt05r56>Folk, R. L., 1959, [http://archives.datapages.com/data/bulletns/1957-60/data/pg/0043/0001/0000/0001.htm Practical petrographic classification of limestones]: AAPG Bulletin, v. 43, p. 1–38.</ref> and Dunham<ref name=pt05r50>Dunham, R. J., 1962, [http://archives.datapages.com/data/specpubs/carbona2/data/a038/a038/0001/0100/0108.htm Classification of carbonate rocks according to depositional texture], in Ham, W. E., ed., Classification of Carbonate Rocks: AAPG Memoir 1, p. 108–121.</ref> classifications.]]
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The two commonest classification systems for [[carbonate]] rocks are those of  Folk<ref name=pt05r56>Folk, R. L., 1959, [http://archives.datapages.com/data/bulletns/1957-60/data/pg/0043/0001/0000/0001.htm Practical petrographic classification of limestones]: AAPG Bulletin, v. 43, p. 1–38.</ref> and Dunham.<ref name=pt05r50>Dunham, R. J., 1962, [http://archives.datapages.com/data/specpubs/carbona2/data/a038/a038/0001/0100/0108.htm Classification of carbonate rocks according to depositional texture], in Ham, W. E., ed., Classification of Carbonate Rocks: AAPG Memoir 1, p. 108–121.</ref> Folk's classification  uses combination forms of  words describing the grains and words describing the cements.  Dunham's classification is based on the depositional fabric of the rock.
  
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The two commonest classification systems for [[carbonate]] rocks are those of  Folk<ref name=pt05r56>Folk, R. L., 1959, [http://archives.datapages.com/data/bulletns/1957-60/data/pg/0043/0001/0000/0001.htm Practical petrographic classification of limestones]: AAPG Bulletin, v. 43, p. 1–38.</ref> and Dunham.<ref name=pt05r50>Dunham, R. J., 1962, [http://archives.datapages.com/data/specpubs/carbona2/data/a038/a038/0001/0100/0108.htm Classification of carbonate rocks according to depositional texture], in Ham, W. E., ed., Classification of Carbonate Rocks: AAPG Memoir 1, p. 108–121.</ref> Folk's classification  uses combination forms of  words describing the grains and words describing the cements.  Dunham's classification is based on the depositional fabric of the rock.
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[[File:Thin-section-analysis fig2.png|frame|{{figure number|1}}Folk<ref name=pt05r56>Folk, R. L., 1959, [http://archives.datapages.com/data/bulletns/1957-60/data/pg/0043/0001/0000/0001.htm Practical petrographic classification of limestones]: AAPG Bulletin, v. 43, p. 1–38.</ref> and Dunham<ref name=pt05r50>Dunham, R. J., 1962, [http://archives.datapages.com/data/specpubs/carbona2/data/a038/a038/0001/0100/0108.htm Classification of carbonate rocks according to depositional texture], in Ham, W. E., ed., Classification of Carbonate Rocks: AAPG Memoir 1, p. 108–121.</ref> classifications.]]
  
 
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Revision as of 16:49, 19 May 2014

The two commonest classification systems for carbonate rocks are those of Folk[1] and Dunham.[2] Folk's classification uses combination forms of words describing the grains and words describing the cements. Dunham's classification is based on the depositional fabric of the rock.

Figure 1 Folk[1] and Dunham[2] classifications.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Folk, R. L., 1959, Practical petrographic classification of limestones: AAPG Bulletin, v. 43, p. 1–38.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Dunham, R. J., 1962, Classification of carbonate rocks according to depositional texture, in Ham, W. E., ed., Classification of Carbonate Rocks: AAPG Memoir 1, p. 108–121.

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