Estimate of clay minerals amounts from XRD pattern modeling: The Arquant model

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth

Volumn 32, Issue 1-7, 2007, Pages 135-144

  Blanc, Philippe ^a   Legendre, Olivier ^a   Gaucher, Eric C ^a  

^a BRGM   (France)

Author keywords

Clay minerals; Modeling; Quantification; XRD pattern

Indexed keywords

CLAY DEPOSITS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MICA; PATTERN RECOGNITION; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

ARQUANT MODEL; CLAY ROCK FORMATION; MICA-LIKE PHASE PROPORTIONS;

CLAY MINERALS;

CLAY MINERAL; ILLITE; MODELING; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 33847748675     PISSN: 14747065     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pce.2006.03.004     Document Type: Article

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