Characterization of the Waukesha Illite: A mixed-polytype illite in the Clay Mineral Society repository

American Mineralogist

Volumn 87, Issue 11-12, 2002, Pages 1557-1563

  Grathoff, Georg H ^a   Moore, Duane M ^b  

^a PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ILLINOIS STATE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECOMPOSITION; MIXING; MIXTURES; SILICON; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ARGILLACEOUS ROCKS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; GEOLOGIC HISTORY; HALF UNIT CELLS; KARSTIFICATION; MARGIN OF ERROR; PHYSICAL MIXTURES; RANDOM POWDER;

CLAY MINERALS;

ARGILLACEOUS DEPOSIT; ILLITE; POLYTYPISM; POTASSIUM-ARGON DATING; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

UNITED STATES; WAUKESHA COUNTY; WISCONSIN;

EID: 0036873670     PISSN: 0003004X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2138/am-2002-11-1205     Document Type: Article

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