Use of immobile trace elements for the correlation of Telychian bentonites on Saaremaa Island, Estonia, and mapping of volcanic ash clouds
Thirty suspected altered volcanic ash (bentonite) samples from the Nässumaa-825 and Orissaare-859 sections were analysed by the X-ray fluorescence method. Twenty of these samples revealed chemical signs of pure volcanogenic material, one was of mixed terrigenous–volcanogenic origin, and nine were cl...
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Language: | English |
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Estonian Academy Publishers
2008-03-01
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Series: | Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences |
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Online Access: | http://eap.ee/public/Estonian_Journal_of_Earth_Sciences/2008/issue_1/earth-2008-1-4.pdf |