The detailed structure and origin of clay minerals at the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary, Stevns Klint (Denmark)

Clay Minerals

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 367-390

  Drits, V A ^a   Lindgreen, H ^b   Sakharov, B A ^a   Jacobsen, H J ^c   Zviagina, B B ^a  

^a RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Chalk; Illite smectite; Impact; IR; K T boundary; NMR; North Sea; Octahedral sheet; Ordering; XRD

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CLAY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; PHASE COMPOSITION; SUBSTITUTION REACTIONS; THERMOANALYSIS; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

FISH CLAY; ILLITE-SMECTITE (I-S) SMAPLE; MAGIC ANGLE SPINNING (MAS); STEVNS KLINT, DENMARK;

CLAY MINERALS;

CLAY MINERAL; CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY; ILLITE; MICROSTRUCTURE; PROVENANCE; SMECTITE;

DENMARK; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; STEVNS KLINT; STORSTROM; WORLD;

EID: 4444267298     PISSN: 00098558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1180/0009855043940141     Document Type: Article

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