Formation and transformation of mixed-layer minerals by Tertiary intrusives in Cretaceous mudstones, West Greenland

Clays and Clay Minerals

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 260-283

  Drits, Victor A ^a   Lindgreen, Holger ^b   Sakharov, Boris A ^a   Jakobsen, Hans Jørgen ^c   Fallick, Anthony E ^d   Salyn, Alfred L ^a   Dainyak, Lidia G ^a   Zviagina, Bella B ^a   Barfod, Dan N ^d  

^a GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^d SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Burial diagenesis; Greenland; Illite smectite; Oil source rocks; Tobelite

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MOSSBAUER SPECTROSCOPY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; THERMOANALYSIS; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

BURIAL DIAGENESIS; ILLITE; MIXED-LAYER MINERALS; OIL-SOURCE ROCKS; SMECTITE; TOBELITE;

CLAY MINERALS;

BURIAL DIAGENESIS; CORE ANALYSIS; DIABASE; ILLITE; MUDSTONE; PARAGONITE; PYROPHYLLITE; SMECTITE; SOURCE ROCK; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; NUUSSUAQ; WEST GREENLAND;

EID: 34547424852     PISSN: 00098604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1346/CCMN.2007.0550304     Document Type: Article

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