Clay mineral assemblages and vitrinite reflectance in the Laga Basin (Central Appenines, Italy): What do they record?

Clays and Clay Minerals

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 504-518

  Aldega, Luca ^a   Botti, Flavia ^b   Corrado, Sveva ^a  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Illite; Italy; K bler index; Laga Basin; Mixed layer clay minerals; Syn orogenic deposits; Thermal evolution; Vitrinite reflectance

Indexed keywords

MINERALOGY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS;

ILLITE; PALEOTEMPERATURES; SYN-OROGENIC DEPOSITS; THERMAL EVOLUTION; VITRINITE REFLECTANCE;

CLAY MINERALS;

CLAY MINERAL; DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; DIAGENESIS; ILLITE; THERMAL EVOLUTION; VITRINITE REFLECTANCE;

APENNINES; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 36749007253     PISSN: 00098604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1346/CCMN.2007.0550505     Document Type: Article

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