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The Illites from Some Northern Ohio Shales

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

Bruce W. Nelson
Bruce W. Nelson*
Affiliation:
University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, USA Department of Geological Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA
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Abstract

The Middle Paleozoic shales of northern Ohio contain a well-crystallized variety of illite as their main constituent. Powder diagrams relate the illite to the two-layer monoclinic muscovite crystallization. The low asymmetry of the 10 A reflection indicates that inter-layering of non-mica or hydrated-mica units is small. The relative intensities of the basal reflections show that the illites approach the ideal muscovite composition but have about one-fourth the octahedral aluminum replaced by iron and are deficient about one-half or less the interlayer potassium. The interlayer positions are essentially anhydrous. One-dimensional Fourier syntheses made before and after thermal treatment of the illites indicate that intensity changes of the basal reflections due to thermal treatment are related to electron density changes confined to the octahedral layer. Dehydroxylization begins at moderately low temperatures and continues until an anhydride structure is formed.

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Clays and Clay Minerals (National Conference on Clays and Clay Minerals) , Volume 4 , February 1955 , pp. 116 - 124
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Copyright © The Clay Minerals Society 1955

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