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Controls on Clay Mineral Distribution and Chemistry in the Early Permian Rotliegend of Germany

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2018

J. D. Platt
J. D. Platt*
Affiliation:
Geologisches Institut, Universitdt Bern, Baltzerstrasse 1, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
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Abstract

Authigenic clay minerals in the German Rotliegend formed mainly at burial depths >1.5 km. Illite is the dominant cement, although kaolinite, dickite and early radial chlorite are abundant locally. Illites contain more AI and late chlorites more AI and Fe in sequences showing extensive grain dissolution. This relationship between clay chemistry and grain dissolution suggests that clay cementation is linked to grain dissolution. Sequences at relatively shallow burial depths (<3-5 km) contain less clay cement. In the more deeply buried sections, increased illite and kandite cementation, together with extensive grain dissolution, is evident where the Rotliegend is juxtaposed against Carboniferous Coal Measures. Faults also acted as important conduits for acidic fluids. Illite and kandite growth occurred at similar depths and from waters of similar isotopic composition (618O = 1-6‰ SMOW) throughout most of the Southern Permian Basin. However, the timing of illite growth varied between areas and corresponded to periods to tectonic activity.

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Clay Minerals , Volume 28 , Issue 3 , September 1993 , pp. 393 - 416
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1993

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