On the calibration of the illite Kübler index (illite "crystallinity")

Schweizerische Mineralogische und Petrographische Mitteilungen

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 323-331

  Kisch, Hanan J ^a   Árkai, Péter ^b   Brime, Covadonga ^c  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

"Crystallinity"; Anchizone boundaries; Dioctahedral K white mica; Illite; Inter laboratory calibration; K bler index; Very low temperature metamorphism; X ray powder diffractometry

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLINITY; ILLITE; INTERLABORATORY COMPARISON; METAMORPHISM; MICA; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 33645760200     PISSN: 00367699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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