Saponite-rich black shales and nontronite beds of the Permian Irati Formation: Sediment sources and thermal metamorphism (Paraná Basin, Brazil)

Clays and Clay Minerals

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 606-626

  Dos Anjos, Camila Wense Dias ^a,b   Meunier, Alain ^a   Guimarães, Edi Mendes ^b   El Albani, Abderrazzak ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Ash Fall Level; Bazil; Black Shales; Genesis; Nontronite; Paran Basin; Saponite; Sediment Source; Talc; Thermal Metamorphism

Indexed keywords

ASH FALL LEVEL; BAZIL; BLACK SHALES; GENESIS; NONTRONITES; SAPONITE; SEDIMENT SOURCE; THERMAL METAMORPHISM;

ALUMINUM; CERIUM; CERIUM COMPOUNDS; CHROMIUM; CLAY; COHERENT SCATTERING; CRYSTALS; EUROPIUM; GEOCHEMISTRY; KAOLINITE; PHOSPHATE MINERALS; QUARTZ; SEAWATER; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SILICATE MINERALS; TALC; VOLCANOES; WEATHERING;

SHALE;

ACCESSORY MINERAL; ALBITE; AUGITE; BENTONITE; BLACK SHALE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CLAYSTONE; ENSTATITE; METAMORPHISM; NONTRONITE; PERMIAN; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; SAPONITE; TALC;

BRAZIL; PARANA BASIN;

MITU;

EID: 78650502611     PISSN: 00098604     EISSN: 15528367     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1346/CCMN.2010.0580503     Document Type: Article

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