Clay mineralogy across the P-T boundary of the Xiakou section, China: Evidence of clay provenance and environment

Clays and Clay Minerals

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 131-143

  Hong, Hanlie ^a   Zhang, Ning ^a   Zhaohui, Li ^b,c   Xue, Huijuang ^a   Xia, Wenchen ^a   Yu, Na ^a  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PARKSIDE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

China; Clay minerals; Mixed layer illite smectite; Permian Triassic Boundary (PTB); Volcanism; Xiakou

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATES; BUILDING MATERIALS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CLAY ALTERATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; FISSION REACTIONS; GARNETS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LASER INTERFEROMETRY; LITHOLOGY; MINERALOGY; MINERALS; MINING; MIXTURES; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; ORE DEPOSIT GEOLOGY; SCANNING; SECONDARY EMISSION; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; SILICA; SILICATE MINERALS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY; SULFATE MINERALS; TEXTURES; VOLCANOES; X RAY ANALYSIS;

ARID CLIMATES; CLAY LAYERS; CLAY MINERAL AGGREGATES; CLAY MINERALOGY; CLAY PARTICLES; DEHYDROXYLATION REACTIONS; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DIAGENETIC ALTERATION; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY (PHOTO-DSC); ELECTRON MICROSCOPY (TEM AND SEM); INTENSE (CO); LOW ENERGIES; MARINE SEDIMENTS; MINERAL COMPOSITIONS; OCTAHEDRAL SHEETS; PERMIAN; PERMIAN-TRIASSIC BOUNDARY; SMALL GRAINS; SMECTITE; SMECTITES; TRIASSIC PERIOD; UNDISTURBED (IGC: D6/D7); VOLCANIC ASHES; VOLCANIC ORIGIN; VOLCANIC SOURCES; X RAY DIFFRACTION (XRD);

CLAY MINERALS;

CALORIMETRY; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHLORITE; CLAY MINERAL; DEHYDROXYLATION; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; ENDOTHERMY; GRAIN SIZE; ILLITE; MARINE SEDIMENT; MINERALOGY; PERMIAN-TRIASSIC BOUNDARY; PROVENANCE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SMECTITE; TEXTURE; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 48249124597     PISSN: 00098604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1346/CCMN.2008.0560201     Document Type: Article

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