Chlorite and biotite weathering, Fe2+-rich corrensite formation, and Fe behavior under low Po2 conditions and thier implication for precambrian weathering

American Mineralogist

Volumn 93, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1080-1089

  Sugimori, Hirokazu ^a   Iwatsuki, Teruki ^b   Murakami, Takashi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b Japan Atomic Energy Agency   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atmospheric evolution; Corrensite; Fe behavior; Granite; Low O2; TEM; Weathering

Indexed keywords

BIOTITE; CLAY MINERALS; CORE DRILLING; DISSOLUTION; FELDSPAR; GRANITE; HYDRAULIC SERVOMECHANISMS; IRON; IRON OXIDES; MAGNESIUM COMPOUNDS; MAGNESIUM METALLOGRAPHY; MICA; SILICATES; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WEATHERING;

ATMOSPHERIC EVOLUTION; CORRENSITE; DISSOLUTION PRECIPITATIONS; DISSOLVED FE; GREEN SAMPLES; LOW O2; TEM ANALYSIS; WEATHERED GRANITES;

IRON METALLOGRAPHY;

AMORPHOUS MEDIUM; BIOTITE; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; CHLORITE; CORRENSITE; DISSOLUTION; FORMATION MECHANISM; OXIDATION; PRECAMBRIAN; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SMECTITE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VERMICULITE; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

ASIA; CHUBU; EURASIA; FAR EAST; GIFU; HONSHU; IWATE; JAPAN; TOHOKU; TONO;

EID: 49549108167     PISSN: 0003004X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2138/am.2008.2663     Document Type: Article

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