Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-gbm5v Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-26T09:00:15.171Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Clay Mineral Content of Gulf Coast Outcrop Samples

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

L. H. Simons  and
M. S. Taggart Jr.
L. H. Simons
Affiliation:
Humble Oil & Refining Co., Houston, Texas, USA
M. S. Taggart Jr.
Affiliation:
Humble Oil & Refining Co., Houston, Texas, USA
Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

Clay samples were taken from formations outcropping between Corpus Christi and Uvalde, Texas, during the annual field trip of the Corpus Christi Geological Society in 1953. The geologic age of the formations sampled ranges from Quaternary to Upper Cretaceous. Both surface and near-surface samples were taken. The results of examination of these samples by use of x-ray diffraction and electron microscope techniques indicate marked differences in the relative proportions of montmorillonite, kaolinite, and illite. Comparison of surface and near-surface samples indicates the probable course of weathering.

Type
Article
Information
Clays and Clay Minerals (National Conference on Clays and Clay Minerals) , Volume 2: Publication 327, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, October 15-17, 1953 , February 1953 , pp. 104 - 110
Copyright
Copyright © Clay Minerals Society 1953

References

References Cited

Brindley, G. W. (1951) The kaolin minerals: In “X-ray identification and crystal structures of clay minerals’’: Mineralogical Society of Great Britain, Monograph, Chap. 2, p. 32–75.Google Scholar
Grim, R. E. (1953) Clay mineralogy: McGraw-Hill, New York, 384 p.Google Scholar
Millot, Georges (1949) Relations entre la constitution et la genèse des roches sédi- mentaires argileuses: Géol, Appliq. et Prosp. Min., v. 2, Nancy, France, 352 p.Google Scholar