Frio shale mineralogy and the stoichiometry of the smectite-to-illite reaction: The most important reaction in clastic sedimentary diagenesis

Clays and Clay Minerals

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 618-631

  Leo Lynch, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Diagenesis; Illite Smectite; Mass Balance; Mineralogy; Shale

Indexed keywords

ALUMINA; CLAY MINERALS; MINERALOGY; POTASSIUM COMPOUNDS; SANDSTONE; SILICA; STOICHIOMETRY;

SHALE DIAGENESIS;

SHALE;

DIAGENESIS; ILLITE; MASS BALANCE; MINERALOGY; SHALE; SMECTITE;

GULF OF MEXICO;

EID: 0031251845     PISSN: 00098604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1346/ccmn.1997.0450502     Document Type: Article

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