Chapter 10 Alteration of Opaque Heavy Minerals as a Reflection of the Geochemical Conditions in Depositional and Diagenetic Environments

Developments in Sedimentology

Volumn 58, Issue , 2007, Pages 277-303

  Weibel, Rikke ^a   Friis, Henrik ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

alteration; diagenetic environment.; Fe Ti oxides; geochemical conditions; hematite; ilmenite; magnetite; opaque heavy minerals; oxidising conditions; reducing conditions; titanomagnetite

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249077591     PISSN: 00704571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0070-4571(07)58010-6     Document Type: Review

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