Thermal models and clay diagenesis in the Tertiary-Cretaceous sediments of the Alava block (Basque-Cantabrian basin, Spain)

Clay Minerals

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 791-809

  Arostegui, Javier ^a   Sanguesa F J ^a   Nieto, F ^b   Uriarte, J A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Basque Cantabrian Basin; Diagenesis; Illite smectite; Illitization; Marls; Retardation; Temperature; Thermal modelling; Wells

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; KAOLIN; LITHOLOGY; MINERALOGY; SEDIMENTS; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

BASQUE-CANTABRIAN BASIN; CLAY DIAGENESIS; ILLITIZATION; RETARDATION; THERMAL MODELLING;

CLAY MINERALS;

CRETACEOUS; DIAGENESIS; ILLITE; KAOLINITE; LITHOLOGY; SMECTITE; TERTIARY;

ALAVA; BASQUE COUNTRY; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 33846979769     PISSN: 00098558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1180/0009855064140219     Document Type: Article

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