Mineralogy of some Australian desert samples (Table 3)

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The relative amounts of chlorite, montmorillonite, kaolinite and illite in the less than 2 micron size fraction of pelagic sediments are related to the sources and transport paths of solid phases from the continents to the oceans and to injections of volcanic materials to the marine environment. Three modes of entry of solid phases from the lands to the seas are considered: by glaciers, by rivers and by atmospheric winds. The compositions of the clay size fraction are also related to rates of accumulation of the non-biogenous phases.

size fraction <2µm, value <1 means traces

Supplement to: Griffin, John J; Windom, Herbert; Goldberg, Edward D (1968): The distribution of clay minerals in the World Ocean. Deep-Sea Research and Oceanographic Abstracts, 15(4), 433-459

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.399426
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1016/0011-7471(68)90051-X
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.399426
Provenance
Creator Griffin, John J; Windom, Herbert; Goldberg, Edward D
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 1968
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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Language English
Resource Type Supplementary Dataset; Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 239 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (119.500W, -33.167S, 139.050E, -23.000N)