Crystal chemistry of layer silicates of the Miocene green grain (Congo Basin) from transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and analytical electron microscopy (AEM) observations

Clays and Clay Minerals

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 582-590

  Wiewiora A ^a   Giresse, P ^b   Jaunet, A M ^b   Wilamowski, A ^a   Elsass, F ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE PERPIGNAN   (France)

^c CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Alteration markers; Congo Basin; Detrital phyllosilicates; Green grains; Neoformed phyllosilicates

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COMPOSITION; CRYSTALLIZATION; DISSOLUTION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IRON; MAGNESIUM; MICA; MORPHOLOGY; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; SEDIMENTS; SILICON;

ANALYTICAL ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CRYSTAL CHEMISTRY; DETRITAL MICA; GREEN GRAIN; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MIOCENE SEDIMENTS; MUSCOVITE; PARTIAL DISSOLUTION; PHYLLOSILICATES;

SILICATES;

CONTINENTAL SHELF; CRYSTAL CHEMISTRY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; MIOCENE; PHYLLOSILICATE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CONGO BASIN;

MICA;

EID: 0343415588     PISSN: 00098604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1346/CCMN.1999.0470505     Document Type: Article

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