Diagenesis and metamorphism of clay minerals in the Helvetic Alps of eastern Switzerland

Clays and Clay Minerals

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 96-112

  Wang, Hejing ^a,b   Frey, Martin ^a   Stern, Willem B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Clay mineralogy; Diagenesis; Helvetic Alps; Incipient metamorphism; Switzerland

Indexed keywords

CLAY MINERALOGY; DIAGENESIS; ILLITE CRYSTALLINITY; METAMORPHISM;

SWITZERLAND, ALPS, HELVETIC ALPS;

EID: 0029749948     PISSN: 00098604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1346/CCMN.1996.0440109     Document Type: Article

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