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Oil-sands clays
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Patrick H.J. Mercier
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Patrick H.J. Mercier
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National Research Council, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Oladipo Omotoso
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Oladipo Omotoso
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Suncor Energy, Inc., Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Daryl Hockley
Daryl Hockley
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SRK Consulting (Canada), Inc., Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Published:January 01, 2018
Depending on the context and discipline, the terms ‘clays’ or ‘clay’ may be used in three different ways: as a particle-size term, as a mineral term, and as a rock term (Moore, 1996). The field of oil-sands research makes no exception and various uses can be encountered in the literature, including terms such as ‘clay-sized minerals,’ ‘fine clays,’ ‘ultrafine clays’ (or ‘ultrafines’), ‘estuarine clay,’ ‘marine clay,’ etc.
In this chapter, an overview is given of: (1) the nomenclature associated with clays and clay minerals; (2) the structure and crystal chemistry of phyllosilicates; and (3) the geology and clay mineralogy of oil sands.
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Clay Minerals Society
Introduction to Oil Sands Clays
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Oladipo Omotoso
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Suncor Energy, Calgary, AB, Canada
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22
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Clay Minerals Society
© Geological Society ISBN 9781881208495$30
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January 01, 2018
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- Alberta
- aluminum
- Athabasca Oil Sands
- bitumens
- Canada
- cations
- centrifuge methods
- chemical composition
- chemical reactions
- chlorite
- chlorite group
- classification
- clastic sediments
- clay
- clay mineralogy
- clay minerals
- Cretaceous
- crystal chemistry
- crystal structure
- depositional environment
- equations
- estuarine environment
- ferric iron
- ferrous iron
- fine-grained materials
- grain size
- illite
- iron
- kaolinite
- lithofacies
- Lower Cretaceous
- McMurray Formation
- Mesozoic
- metals
- mica group
- mine waste
- mineral composition
- nomenclature
- oil sands
- oxidation
- partitioning
- petroleum
- plasticity
- saturation
- sedimentary rocks
- sediments
- serpentine
- serpentine group
- sheet silicates
- silicates
- silicon
- smectite
- stratification
- substitution
- tailings
- talc
- vermiculite
- Western Canada
- X-ray diffraction data
- northeastern Alberta
- Wabiskaw Formation
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