A refined XRD method for the determination of chlorite composition and application to the McGerrigle mountains anchizone in the Quebec Appalachians

Canadian Mineralogist

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1525-1546

  Shata, Salah ^a   Hesse, Reinhard ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anchizone; Burial diagenesis; Chlorite; Composition; Crystallinity; Fe asymmetry; Formula; McGerrigle Mountains pluton; Quebec Appalachians

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHLORITE; DIAGENESIS; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

CANADA;

EID: 14744299724     PISSN: 00084476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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