Clay mineralogy of the central North Sea upper cretaceous tertiary chalk and the formation of clay-rich layers

Clays and Clay Minerals

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 693-710

  Lindgreen, Holger ^a   Drits, Victor A ^b   Jakobsen, Finn C ^a   Sakharov, Boris A ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^b RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Chalk; Chlorite smectite; Clay layers; Cretaceous; Danian; Diagenesis; Illite smectite; Kaolinite; North Sea; Seams; XRD

Indexed keywords

CHLORITE-SMECTITE; ILLITE-SMECTITE; NORTH SEA; SMECTITE CLAYS; XRD;

CALCITE; CARBONATE MINERALS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DISSOLUTION; KAOLINITE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SERPENTINE; SILICATE MINERALS; UNDERWATER MINERALOGY; VOLCANOES; WELLS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

MINERALS;

CHALK; CHLORITE; CLAY MINERAL; CRETACEOUS; DANIAN; DIAGENESIS; DISSOLUTION; KAOLINITE; SMECTITE; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA;

EID: 77249128417     PISSN: 00098604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1346/CCMN.2008.0560610     Document Type: Article

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