The role of diagenesis in the formation of kaolinite raw materials in the Santonian sediments of the North-Sudetic Trough (Lower Silesia, Poland)

Applied Clay Science

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 313-328

  Górniak, Katarzyna ^a  

^a AGH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Authigenic minerals; Claystones; Diagenesis; Fluvial deposits; Kaolinite; Santonian sandstones

Indexed keywords

CLAY MINERALS; FELDSPAR; MICA; SANDSTONE; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS;

AUTHIGENIC MINERALS; CLAYSTONES; DIAGENESIS; FLUVIAL DEPOSITS; KAOLINITE; SANTONIAN SANDSTONES;

KAOLIN;

EID: 0031249970     PISSN: 01691317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-1317(97)00015-X     Document Type: Article

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