Zeolitic alteration in the Tertiary Feres volcano-sedimentary basin, Thrace, NE Greece

Mineralogical Magazine

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 327-345

  Marantos, I ^a   Markopoulos, T ^b   Christidis, G E ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND MINERAL EXPLORATION   (Greece)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Analcime; Clinoptilolite; Devitrification; Heulandite; Laumontite; Mordenite; Rhyolites; Stilbite; Tertiary volcaniclastics; Vapour phase crystallization; Zeolite; Zeolitization

Indexed keywords

CLAY MINERALS; CRYSTALLIZATION; HYDROTHERMAL SYNTHESIS; MINERALOGY; SILICA; VOLCANIC ROCKS;

DEVITRIFICATION; RHYOLITES; TERTIARY VOLCANICLASTICS; VAPOR-PHASE CRYSTALLIZATION; ZEOLITIZATION;

ZEOLITES;

ANDESITE; CLAY MINERAL; CRYSTALLIZATION; HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION; MINERAL ALTERATION; MINERALIZATION; ORE-FORMING FLUID; POLYMORPHISM; PYROCLASTIC FLOW; RHYOLITE; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; TERTIARY; VOLCANIC GLASS; ZEOLITE;

EURASIA; THRACE;

EID: 39749101767     PISSN: 0026461X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1180/minmag.2007.071.3.327     Document Type: Article

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