Alteration history of volcaniclastic sediments in the upper Oligocene Creede Formation, southwestern Colorado

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 346, Issue , 2000, Pages 209-232

  Finkelstein, David B ^a   Altaner, Stephen P ^a   Hay, Richard L ^b  

^a ILLINOIS STATE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b The University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLAY ALTERATION; CORE DRILLING; DEPOSITION; DRILLS; FELDSPAR; INFILL DRILLING; KAOLINITE; QUARTZ; SILICATES; TEXTURES;

CHEMICAL SYSTEMS; CLINOPTILOLITES; GEOTHERMAL GRADIENTS; HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATIONS; MINERAL ASSEMBLAGE; MIXED-LAYER CLAY; VOLCANICLASTIC SEDIMENTS; ZEOLITE FORMATION;

ZEOLITES;

CORE LOGGING; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; DIAGENESIS; DRILLING; OLIGOCENE; SILICIFICATION; TUFF; VOLCANICLASTIC DEPOSIT; ZEOLITE;

COLORADO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870938444     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2346-9.209     Document Type: Article

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