MINERALOGICAL AND GEOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS AND GENESIS OF THE SEPIOLITE DEPOSITS AT POLATLI BASIN (ANKARA, TURKEY)
CLAYS AND CLAY MINERALS, cilt.59, sa.3, ss.286-314, 2011 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 59 Sayı: 3
- Basım Tarihi: 2011
- Doi Numarası: 10.1346/ccmn.2011.0590306
- Dergi Adı: CLAYS AND CLAY MINERALS
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.286-314
- Hacettepe Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
The Middle-Upper Miocene-Pliocene sediments near Polatli contain commercial sepiolitic clay deposits. The sepiolite-rich Polatli basin sediments were studied to describe the sepiolitic clay deposits of the area and to assess the environments of formation using X-ray diffraction, optical and scanning electron microscopy, and chemical analysis. The Polatli basin is an elongated, rift-related graben trending NE-SW in central Turkey, filled with continental Late Miocene to Early Pliocene sediments. The sediments which comprise claystone, marl and limestone, dolostone, and evaporites are characteristic deposits of low-salinity, playa-lake depositional environments. These sepiolite-rich deposits include sepiolite, dolomite, and calcite, with minor amounts of palygorskite, quartz, moganite, amorphous silica (opal-CT), and feldspar.