Effect of Permo-Carboniferous climate on illite-smectite, Haushi Group, Sultanate of Oman

Clays and Clay Minerals

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 131-143

  Hartmann, Bernhard H ^a   Juhász Bodnár, Katalin ^a   Ramseyer, Karl ^a   Matter, Albert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Haushi Group; I S; Illite; Paleoclimate; Sultanate of Oman; Upper Paleozoic

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL REACTIONS; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPOSITION; DEPOSITION; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTS; WEATHERING;

HAUSHI GROUP; ILLITE; PALEOCLIMATE; PERMO CARBONIFEROUS CLIMATE; SMECTITE; SULTANATE OF OMAN; UPPER PALEOZOIC;

CLAY MINERALS;

BURIAL (GEOLOGY); ILLITE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOZOIC; SMECTITE;

OMAN;

CARBONIFEROUS;

EID: 0345085556     PISSN: 00098604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1346/CCMN.1999.0470203     Document Type: Article

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