Mineral preferred orientation and microstructure in the Posidonia Shale in relation to different degrees of thermal maturity

Clays and Clay Minerals

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 315-329

  Kanitpanyacharoen, Waruntorn ^a   Kets, Frans B ^b   Wenk, Hans Rudolf ^a   Wirth, Richard ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Clay minerals; Microstructure; Porosity; Posidonia Shale; Preferred orientation

Indexed keywords

BEDDING PLANES; CLAY PLATELETS; CONSTITUENT PHASIS; GERMANY; ILLITE-SMECTITE; LOW DENSITY; NANO SCALE; PETROPHYSICAL MEASUREMENTS; POLE FIGURE; POSIDONIA; PREFERRED ORIENTATIONS; RANDOM DISTRIBUTION; RANDOM ORIENTATIONS; SYNCHROTRON X RAY DIFFRACTION; SYNCHROTRON X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY; THERMAL HISTORY; THERMAL MATURITY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MICROSTRUCTURES; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON;

CALCITE; CLAY MINERALS; CONTENT BASED RETRIEVAL; KAOLINITE; KEROGEN; MICA; MICROSTRUCTURE; POROSITY; QUARTZ; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

SHALE;

BEDDING PLANE; FELDSPAR; ILLITE; MICROSTRUCTURE; POROSITY; PREFERRED ORIENTATION; PYRITE; QUARTZ; THERMAL MATURITY;

POSIDONIA;

EID: 84866493189     PISSN: 00098604     EISSN: 15528367     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1346/CCMN.2012.0600308     Document Type: Article

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