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February 01, 1998
Low-temperature alteration in tuffs from Yucca Mountain, Nevada
Jillian F. Banfield;
Jillian F. Banfield
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Madison, WI, United States
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Jillian F. Banfield
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Madison, WI, United States
William W. Barker
Publisher: Clay Mineral Society
First Online:
02 Mar 2017
Online ISSN: 1552-8367
Print ISSN: 0009-8604
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Clays and Clay Minerals (1998) 46 (1): 27–37.
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02 Mar 2017
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Jillian F. Banfield, William W. Barker; Low-temperature alteration in tuffs from Yucca Mountain, Nevada. Clays and Clay Minerals 1998;; 46 (1): 27–37. doi:
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Index Terms/Descriptors
- aluminosilicates
- Cenozoic
- clay mineralogy
- clay minerals
- diagenesis
- framework silicates
- glasses
- hydrothermal alteration
- hydrothermal conditions
- igneous rocks
- low temperature
- metasomatism
- mica group
- Miocene
- muscovite
- Neogene
- Nevada
- Nye County Nevada
- pyroclastics
- recrystallization
- sheet silicates
- silicates
- smectite
- temperature
- Tertiary
- Topopah Spring Member
- tuff
- United States
- volcanic rocks
- weathering
- Yucca Mountain
- zeolite group
- zeolitization
- Calico Hills Formation
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