Early clay diagenesis in gulf coast sediments: New insights from XRD profile modeling

Clays and Clay Minerals

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 359-379

  McCarty, Douglas K ^a   Sakharov, Boris A ^b   Drits, Victor A ^b  

^a CHEVRON ENERGY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY   (United States)

^b RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Diagenesis; Frio formation; Gulf coast; Illite smectite; Smectite

Indexed keywords

ETHYLENE; ETHYLENE GLYCOL; GEOLOGIC MODELS; GLYCOLS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; THERMOANALYSIS; X RAY ANALYSIS; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

CLAY FRACTIONS; DIAGENESIS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY.; EXPANDABILITY; FRIO FORMATION; GULF COAST; GULF OF MEXICO; ILLITE-SMECTITE; OLIGOCENE; PHYSICAL MIXTURES; SMECTITE; SMECTITE LAYERS; XRD PATTERNS; XRD PROFILE MODELING;

CLAY MINERALS;

CLAY MINERAL; COASTAL SEDIMENT; DIAGENESIS; ILLITE; MINERALOGY; MODELING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SMECTITE; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 49549096634     PISSN: 00098604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1346/CCMN.2008.0560306     Document Type: Article

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