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Clays, muds, and shales /

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This book provides a comprehensive and critical summary of clay mineral literature that relates to geology and geologic processes, making it useful both as a reference book for geologists and as a text for the specialist. The book encompasses the full scope of clay-shale geology. An introductory cha...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Weaver, Charles E. (Charles Edward)
Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; New York : Elsevier : Distributors for the U.S. and Canada, Elsevier Science Pub. Co., 1989.
Series:Developments in sedimentology ; 44.
Subjects:
Clay.
Mud.
Shale.
Sedimentation and deposition.
Argile.
Vase (Dépôt)
Schiste.
Sédimentation (Géologie)
clay.
NATURE > Rocks & Minerals.
Clay
Mud
Sedimentation and deposition
Shale
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Background. Structure and Composition. Soils and Weathering. Continental Transport and Deposition. Marine Transport and Deposition. "Authigenic Marine" Physils. Diagenesis Metamorphism. Physils in Sandstones. Evolution of Physils and Continents. Lithification and Petrology. References. Author and Subject Indexes. (Full contents available upon request to the publisher).