'Retrograde diagenesis' of clay minerals in the Precambrian Freda Sandstone, Wisconsin

Clays and Clay Minerals

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 119-130

  Zhao, Gengmei ^a   Peacor, Donald R ^a   Mcdowell, S Douglas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Michigan Technological University   (United States)

Author keywords

Analytical electron microscopy; Chlorite; Freda Formation; I S; Illite; Muscovite; Retrograde diagenesis; Scanning electron microscopy; Smectite; Transmission electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL REACTIONS; COMPOSITION; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TEMPERATURE; TEXTURES; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

CHLORITE; ILLITE; MUSCOVITE; PRECAMBRIAN FREDA SANDSTONE; RETROGRADE DIAGENESIS; SMECTITE;

CLAY MINERALS;

BURIAL (GEOLOGY); CLAY MINERAL; DIAGENESIS; ILLITE; SMECTITE;

EID: 0033026103     PISSN: 00098604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1346/ccmn.1999.0470202     Document Type: Article

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