Mineral forms and silica diagenesis in weathering silcretes of volcanic rocks in Slovakia

Geologica Carpathica

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 107-118

  Čurlík, Ján ^a   Forgáč, Jozef ^b  

^a Soil Fertility Research Institute Slovakia   (Slovakia)

^b Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Chalcedony; Diagenesis; Opal; Paleoenvironment; Quartz; Silcrete; Silica; Weathering

Indexed keywords

CHALCEDONY; DIAGENESIS; OPAL; QUARTZ; SILCRETE; SILICA; WEATHERING;

SLOVAKIA;

EID: 0029730618     PISSN: 13350552     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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