Namurian bentonites in the Pennine Basin, UK - origin and magmatic affinities

Sedimentology

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 385-401

  Spears, D A ^a   Kanaris Sotiriou, R ^a   Riley, N ^b   Krause, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bentonites; Carboniferous; Clay minerals; Geochemistry; Petrography; Tonsteins

Indexed keywords

BENTONITE; GEOCHEMISTRY; MAGMATISM; NAMURIAN; PROVENANCE;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0033036890     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3091.1999.00220.x     Document Type: Article

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