Practical Application of the Mineralogical Mapping Method for Stratigraphy of the Cretaceous Deposits of Southern Primorye (Russian Far East)

• Main Author: Anatoly V. Mozherovsky
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2021-08-01
• Series: Minerals
• Subjects: stratigraphy; authigenic minerals; corrensite; rectorite; chlorite; mica
• Online Access: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-163X/11/8/840

Highly ordered mixed-layer formations of chlorite–smectite (corrensite) and mica–smectite (rectorite) were found in the volcanogenic–sedimentary rocks of Southern Primorye. They have shown a rather narrow “living” time interval (Cretaceous–Paleogene). The associations of corrensite and rectorite with chlorite, mica, kaolinite, and laumontite have great value in labeling. Their study would determine the time and thickness parameters of sedimentation conditions, the nature of the transformation stages, the physicochemical and climatic parameters of the accumulation of the depositional material, and the geological history and stratigraphic construction of Mesozoic–Cenozoic volcanogenic–sedimentary rocks of the Primorye Region.