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Quantification of illite and smectite and their layer charges in sandstones and shales from shallow burial depth

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2018

J. Środoń
J. Środoń*
Affiliation:
Institute of Geological Sciences PAN, Senacka 1, 31002 Kraków, Poland
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*E-mail: ndsrodon@cyf-kr.edu.pl
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Abstract

Precise measurement of the content and the layer charge of illite and smectite is an important aspect of the mineralogical calibration of geophysical well logs and of the evaluation of mechanical and chemical properties of sedimentary rocks. Ate chnique for obtaining such measurements was developed during mineralogical studies of the Miocene clastic rocks from the Carpathian Foredeep. X-ray diffraction (XRD), chemical, cation exchange capacity (CEC), H2O sorption, and ethylene glycol monoethyl ether (EGME) sorption data were obtained for 65 samples of sandstones, shales and carbonates. The illite + smectite sum, involving all detected 2:1 minerals (smectite, illite-smectite, illite, glauconite and muscovite) was measured by XRD. The content of the illitic component was evaluated separately using % K2O and accounting for % K2O in K-feldspar. The content of the smectitic component was estimated from EGME retention using the reference data for a smectite standard, and from CEC assuming the smectitic layer charge of 0.41/O10(OH)2 (Środoń et al., in press). All these measurements produced very consistent results.

Keywords

CECcharge densityEGME sorptionilliteillite-smectitelayer chargesmectitespecific surface areaXRDwater sorption
Type
Research Article
Information
Clay Minerals , Volume 44 , Issue 4 , December 2009 , pp. 421 - 434
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 2009

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