Formation and transformation of mixed-layer minerals by Tertiary intrusives in Cretaceous mudstones, West Greenland

• Published in: Clays and Clay Minerals
• Main Authors: Drits, Victor A., Lindgreen, Holger, Sakharov, Boris A., Jakobsen, Hans Jorgen, Fallick, Anthony E., Salyn, Alfred L., Dainyak, Lidia G., Zviagina, Bella B., Barfod, Dan N.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2007
• Subjects: Burial Diagenesis; Greenland; Illite-smectite; Oil-source Rocks; Tobelite; Nuussuaq
• Online Access: https://ddd.uab.cat/record/224784

In the Nuussuaq Basin, West Greenland, a thick succession of Tertiary dolerites has penetrated Upper Cretaceous mudstone. The mixed-layer minerals of mudstone core samples have been analyzed by X-ray diffraction, solid-state Si and Al magic-angle spinning nuclear magnetic resonance, Mössbauer and in...