Clay mineralogy, fine-grained sediment dispersal, and inferred current patterns, lower Cook Inlet and Kodiak shelf, Alaska

1979 ◽  
Vol 24 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 291-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
James R. Hein ◽  
Arnold H. Bouma ◽  
Monty A. Hampton ◽  
C. Robin Ross
Keyword(s):  
Clay Mineralogy ◽  
Cook Inlet ◽  
Sediment Dispersal ◽  
Fine Grained

The Hayes Tephra Deposits, and Upper Holocene Marker Horizon in South-Central Alaska

1990 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 276-290 ◽  
Author(s):  
James R. Riehle ◽  
Peter M. Bowers ◽  
Thomas A. Ager
Keyword(s):  
Cook Inlet ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
South Central ◽  
Inlet Region ◽  
Tephra Deposits ◽  
Phenocryst Content

AbstractThe most widespread of all Holocene tephra deposits in the Cook Inlet region of south-central Alaska is a set of deposits from Hayes volcano. Because of their unique phenocryst content—biotite in rare amounts and a high proportion of amphibole to pyroxene—the deposits are readily identifiable at all but the most distant sites where they are very fine grained. Eighteen radiocarbon dates from eight upland sites limit the age of the tephra set to between about 3500 and 3800 yr. The set originated at Hayes volcano in the Tordrillo Mountains 150 km northwest of Anchorage; seven or possibly eight closely succeeding deposits, low-silica dacite in composition, compose two main lobes that extend northeast for 400 km and south for at least 250 km from the vent. We estimate the total tephra volume to be 10 km3; multiple layers imply four to six larger and two or three smaller eruptions. The deposits are a nearly isochronous marker horizon that should be useful in future archeologic, geologic, and palynologic studies in the region.

scholarly journals Clay mineralogy of the Paleozoic-Lower Mesozoic sedimentary sequence from the northern part of the Arabian Platform, Hazro (Diyarbakır, Southeast Anatolia)

2011 ◽  
Vol 62 (6) ◽  
pp. 489-500 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ömer Bozkaya ◽  
Hüseyin Yalçin ◽  
Hüseyin Kozlu
Keyword(s):  
Clay Mineralogy ◽  
Sedimentary Sequence ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Bedding Planes ◽  
Wet Gas ◽  
Vertical Distributions ◽  
Southeast Anatolia ◽  
Oriented Parallel ◽  
Vitrinite Reflection ◽  
Arabian Platform

Clay mineralogy of the Paleozoic-Lower Mesozoic sedimentary sequence from the northern part of the Arabian Platform, Hazro (Diyarbakır, Southeast Anatolia)The Paleozoic-Lower Mesozoic units in the Diyarbakır-Hazro region consist of sandstone (subarkose, quartz arenite), mudstone, shale, coal, marl, dolomitic marl, limestone (biomicrite, lithobiosparite, biosparite with lithoclast, dololithobiosparite, dolomitic cherty sparite) and dolomite (dolosparite, dolosparite with lithoclast, biodolosparite with glauconite). These units exhibit no slaty cleavage although they are oriented parallel to bedding planes. The sedimentary rocks contain mainly calcite, dolomite, quartz, feldspar, goethite and phyllosilicates (kaolinite, illite-smectite (I-S), illite and glauconite) associated with small amounts of gypsum, jarosite, hematite and gibbsite. The amounts of quartz and feldspar in the Silurian-Devonian units and of dolomite in the Permian-Triassic units increase. Kaolinite is more commonly observed in the Silurian-Devonian and Permian units, whereas illite and I-S are found mostly in the Middle Devonian and Triassic units. Vertical distributions of clay minerals depend on lithological differences rather than diagenetic/metamorphic grade. Authigenetic kaolinites as pseudo-hexagonal bouquets and glauconite and I-S as fine-grained flakes or filaments are more abundantly present in the levels of clastic and carbonate rocks. Illite quantities in R3 and R1 I-S vary between 80 and 95 %. 2M1+1Mdillites/I-S are characterized by moderatebcell values (9.005-9.040, mean 9.020 Å), whereas glauconites have higher values in the range of 9.054-9.072, mean 9.066 Å. KI values of illites (0.72-1.56, mean 1.03 Δ2θ°) show no an important vertical difference. Inorganic (mineral assemblages, KI, polytype) and organic maturation (vitrinite reflection) parameters in the Paleozoic-Triassic units agree with each others in majority that show high-grade diagenesis and catagenesis (light petroleum-wet gas hydrocarbon zone), respectively. The Paleozoic-Triassic sequence in this region was deposited in the environment of a passive continental margin and entirely resembles the Eastern Taurus Para-Autochthon Unit (Geyikdağı Unit) in respect of lithology and diagenetic grade.

Submarine-fan characteristics and dual sediment provenance, Lower Carboniferous Bragdon Formation, eastern Klamath terrane, California

1989 ◽  
Vol 26 (5) ◽  
pp. 927-940 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Meghan Miller ◽  
Bingquan Cui
Keyword(s):  
Early Carboniferous ◽  
Sediment Provenance ◽  
Dispersal Pattern ◽  
Submarine Fan ◽  
Lower Carboniferous ◽  
Sediment Dispersal ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Rock Fragments ◽  
Western Cordillera ◽  
Volcaniclastic Rocks

The Carboniferous Bragdon Formation comprises sandstone, argillite, and conglomerate, which were deposited in a hybrid submarine-fan setting. The Bragdon Formation contains a crudely progradational succession of sand-rich turbidites and intercalated channel fill and debris flows. Apparent paucity of fine-grained rocks and relatively high sedimentation rates may suggest deposition within a small, rapidly subsiding, ponded basin. Three end-member petrologic sandstone types include (i) quartz-rich, chert-rich, and sedimentary-lithic-rich sandstone, (ii) volcanic-lithic- and feldspar-rich sandstone, and (iii) crystal-rich sandstone and tuffaceous argillite. The compositions reflect basement uplift, arc dissection, and the persistence of volcanism, respectively. Interbedded strata of differing provenance, together with little or no provenance mixing within beds, indicate multicomponent source terranes, line-source sediment dispersal pattern, and limited transport distances.Facies associations and provenance together suggest extension or transtension within an arc-related basinal setting during the Late Devonian and Early Carboniferous, resulting in deposition of epiclastic sediments that were rich in sedimentary rock fragments in a Paleozoic succession otherwise dominated by volcaniclastic rocks or fringing carbonates. Mid-Paleozoic chert-rich epiclastic strata are widespread within the western Cordillera in a variety of tectonic regimes that may be broadly related to the same oblique plate margin.

Estimation of the segregation potential of fine-grained soils using the frost heave response of two reference soils

2005 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Marie Konrad
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Relationship ◽  
Clay Mineralogy ◽  
Frost Heave ◽  
Free Access ◽  
Overburden Pressure ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Average Grain Size ◽  
Fine Grained Soil ◽  
Segregation Potential

The frost heave response of quarry fines from several locations in the Province of Quebec was studied in the laboratory using one-dimensional step-freezing tests with free access to water. Comparison of the segregation potential values obtained from these tests with available data on fine-grained soils revealed the importance of including clay mineralogy and overburden effects in any predictive empirical relationship, especially when fines are nonclays. A new approach is presented to estimate segregation potential values using the frost heave response of two reference soils. The reference characteristics consist of a relationship between segregation potential at zero overburden pressure, specific surface area, and average grain size of the fines fraction for two artificial soil mixtures in which the clay mineral is poorly crystallized kaolinite. The prediction of segregation potential values using the reference frost heave characteristics approach is more robust and reliable than other empirical approaches that do not specifically distinguish between clay and nonclay fines. Furthermore, the new approach was also efficient for the assessment of frost susceptibility of well-graded glacial tills.Key words: fine grained, soil, mineralogy, laboratory, fines, clay, nonclay.

The use of magnetic susceptibility and trace element geochemistry for the correlation of fine-grained siliciclastic sequences: a Late Llandovery example from northwest England

1999 ◽  
Vol 136 (4) ◽  
pp. 423-436 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. T. P. ENGLISH
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Susceptibility ◽  
Bottom Water ◽  
Sediment Accumulation ◽  
Clay Mineralogy ◽  
Manganese Carbonate ◽  
Trace Element Geochemistry ◽  
Accumulation Rates ◽  
Element Geochemistry ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Water Oxygen

High-resolution lithological and magnetic susceptibility logs were made of two sections of the Upper Llandovery Browgill Formation in northwest England: Stockdale Beck, the type section of the Browgill Formation, and Spengill. The Browgill Formation is composed of fine-grained deep marine siliciclastics, which can be divided broadly into two facies: a homogeneous grey mudstone, deposited under oxygenated bottom-water conditions, and subordinate beds of laminated, graptolite-bearing black mudstone deposited under low bottom-water oxygen levels. The latter facies is often partially or fully diagenetically altered to chlorite nodules, occasionally with manganese carbonate nucleii. Magnetic susceptibility logs are shown to reflect variations in the illite–chlorite ratio of the clay mineralogy. Chlorite is a paramagnetic mineral, so the bands of chlorite nodules produce magnetic susceptibility highs. Correlation demonstrates that diagenetically altered beds of laminated black mudstone are continuous between the two sections, now situated 32 km apart. This lateral continuity would favour pelagic fallout in preference to gravity flow as a depositional model for both facies. A correlated sequence within the turriculatus Biozone is 3.8 times thicker at Spengill than at Stockdale Beck, probably reflecting variations in sediment accumulation rates. Correlation also identifies significant non-sequences in both sections: at least 47% of the turriculatus Biozone (including maximus Sub-biozone) is missing at Stockdale Beck and at least 77% of the crispus Biozone is missing at Spengill. The identification of non-sequences may be of value for refining graptolite biostratigraphy.

Clay mineral assemblages in flysch from the Campo de Gibraltar area (Spain)

Clay Minerals ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 345-364 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. D. Ruiz Cruz
Keyword(s):  
Clay Mineral ◽  
Clay Mineralogy ◽  
Transport Processes ◽  
Source Rocks ◽  
Coarse Grained ◽  
Tectonic Activity ◽  
X Ray Diffraction ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Mineral Assemblages ◽  
Climatic Cooling

AbstractIn order to determine the relative influence of palaeoenvironmental and diagenetic processes in clay assemblages, as well as their significance, both fine- and coarse-grained sediments from the Campo de Gibraltar flysch have been studied by means of X-ray diffraction, optical and electron microscopy, and chemical analysis. Diagenetic modifications appear to be lithologically controlled and mainly affect coarse-grained sediments, where Fe-chlorites, illite and kaolinite are the more characteristic authigenic clay minerals. The evolution of detrital assemblages, determined in fine-grained beds, indicates that, from Cretaceous to Eocene times, clay mineralogy, characterized by the opposite kaolinite+smectite and illite + I-S mixed-layer assemblages, was mainly controlled by sources, climate and transport processes. On the other hand, from the Oligocene, clay mineral assemblages, characterized either by the abundance of kaolinite, or by the illite+chlorite association, mainly reflect the petrology of source rocks, as a consequence of climatic cooling and the increasing tectonic activity, which impede the development of soils.

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