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Pretreatment of Fithian illite for oxygen isotope analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2018

A. J. C. Hogg ,
M. J. Pearson  and
A. E. Fallick
A. J. C. Hogg
Affiliation:
Department of Geology & Petroleum Geology, Marischal College, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland, AB9 1AS
M. J. Pearson
Affiliation:
Department of Geology & Petroleum Geology, Marischal College, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland, AB9 1AS
A. E. Fallick
Affiliation:
Scottish Universities Research & Reactor Centre, East Kilbride, Glasgow, Scotland, G75 0QU.
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Oxygen isotope analysis of clay minerals presents several practical difficulties. These include their very fine grain size, the presence of both hydroxyl and non-hydroxyl oxygen, adsorbed water and, where clays from oil reservoirs are concerned, the possibility of hydrocarbon contamination. To develop routines which would minimize these problems while leaving the isotope systematics of the clay undisturbed, a series of oxygen isotope analyses were made under different running conditions of the API Standard Illite–the Fithian illite.

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Clay Minerals , Volume 28 , Issue 1 , March 1993 , pp. 149 - 152
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1993

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