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Clay minerals as records of temperature conditions and duration of thermal anomalies in the Paris Basin, France: a reply to the discussion by Spötl et al.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2018

N. Clauer ,
J. R. O'Neil ,
S. Furlan  and
J. R. Mossmann
N. Clauer
Affiliation:
Centre de Géochimie de la Surface (CNRS) 1 rue Blessig, 67084 Strasbourg, France
J. R. O'Neil
Affiliation:
Department of Geological Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
S. Furlan
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas 66056, USA
J. R. Mossmann
Affiliation:
Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minièes, Avenue de Concyr, 45060 Orléans, France
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Abstract

Spötl et al. (1996) have re-examined studies published by us on clay materials of sandstones in the Paris Basin. They refute the XRD characterization, K-Ar dating and formation temperature of one of the interstratified illite-smectite phases identified and have provided an alternative explanation of the published results. However, the authors ignored some basic data provided in the publications under discussion, and they have not been able to explain readily why some of the data were discarded. Furthermore, part of their disagreement is unsubstantiated. We maintain that, on the basis of coherency and consistency of all the data obtained, as well as on independent published results, the most satisfactory interpretation for the thermal evolution of the Paris Basin is the one that we suggested in our publications.

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Clay Minerals , Volume 31 , Issue 2 , June 1996 , pp. 209 - 215
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1996

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