Apatite phenocryst compositions demonstrate a miscorrelation between the Millbrig and Kinnekulle K-bentonites of North America and Scandinavia

Geology

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 303-306

  Sell, Bryan K ^a   Samson, Scott D ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPES; GOOD DISCRIMINATORS; GRAPTOLITES; MULTIPLE COMPONENTS; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOGEOGRAPHIC RECONSTRUCTION; PLINIAN ERUPTION; SCANDINAVIA; TRACE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS;

APATITE; CERIUM; CHLORINE; CRYSTALS; ISOTOPES; MANGANESE; PHOSPHATE MINERALS; STRATIGRAPHY; TRACE ELEMENTS; VOLCANOES;

BENTONITE;

APATITE; BENTONITE; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONODONT; GRAPTOLITE; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PHANEROZOIC; PHENOCRYST; RECONSTRUCTION; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

NORTH AMERICA; SCANDINAVIA;

PLINIA;

EID: 79954594421     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G31425.1     Document Type: Article

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