Chapter 6 'In Situ' Dissolution of Heavy Minerals through Extreme Weathering, and the Application of the Surviving Assemblages and their Dissolution Characteristics to Correlation of Dutch and German Silver Sands

Developments in Sedimentology

Volumn 58, Issue , 2007, Pages 189-213

  Mange, Maria A ^b  

^a Tom) Van   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

grain characteristics; heavy mineral dissolution; in situ weathering; silver sands; staurolite weathering; stratigraphic correlation; tourmaline colour varieties

Indexed keywords

EID: 44449101171     PISSN: 00704571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0070-4571(07)58006-4     Document Type: Review

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