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Illite from
Calgary, Alberta, Canada


Locality type:City
Classification
Species:Muscovite var: Illite
Formula:K0.65Al2.0[Al0.65Si3.35O10](OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Illite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:423583
Long-form Identifier:1:3:423583:5
GUID (UUID V4):00f3ba96-2b22-42ae-93d7-31df3094d544
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geology and Geophysics, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 1N4 Received 6 October 2003; accepted...surface discharges 1–45 mg/L Oilfield waters from Alberta, Canada contain 1–1000 mg/L NHþ 4 þ NHþ 4 , and landfill...correspond to K–NHþ 4 exchange involving illitic (illite-muscovite) clays (and possibly feldspars) for samples... Juster et al. (1987) describe coal-associated illite in which as much as half the interlayer K has been...tobelite (the ammonium analogue of muscovite) and illite, concluding that the relative proportions of interlayer
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(southeastern British Columbia) and Mt Allan (southwestern Alberta) IAN HUTCHEON, ALAN OLDERSHAWand EDWARD D. GHENT...Geology and Geophysics, University of Calgary, Calgary. Canada T2N IN4 Abstracts--Vitrinite reflectance...Kootenay Formation, which outcrops at Mt Allan (N.W. Alberta) and samples recovered from boreholes at Elk Valley...crystallinity ance is confirmed by increasing of illite at Mt Allan of chloriteecalcite as an and authigenic...Mount Allan. 45 km to the north in southwestern Alberta. The two areas were selected for study because
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF 2 SHALES FROM THE WESTERN CANADA SEDIMENTARY BASIN AND THE UNITED STATES GULF COAST...Geophysics, The University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta T2N IN4, Canada 4 Department of Earth Sciences...5B7, Canada 5 Institute of Sedimentary and Petroleum Geology, Geological Survey of Canada, Calgary, Alberta...Alberta T2L 2A7, Canada I Abstract-The mineralogy and geochemistry of shales reflect the composition of...compositions of 2 shales. One shale is from the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin (WCSB), and its composition mainly
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
comparison of shale compositions from the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin and the U.S. Gulf Coast: the...Geophysics, The University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada Department of Earth Sciences,...5B7, Canada Institute of Sedimentary and Petroleum Geology, Geological Survey of Canada, Calgary, Alberta...Alberta T2L 2A7, Canada. Introduction The mineralogical, bulk-rock and clay-fraction geochemical, and clay-fraction...O-isotopic compositions of shales from the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin (WCSB) and the U.S. Gulf Coast
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
HARMON MEMBER (PEACE RIVER FORMATION), WESTERN CANADA J. BLOCH l AND L E. HUTCHEON Department of...and Geophysics. The University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N IN4 Abstract-Shales have often...mineral reactions, particularly the smectite to illite reaction, and generally have not considered bulk...Survey of Canada, Institute ofSedimentary and Petroleum Geology, 3303 33'd St. N.W., Calgary, Alberta, Canada...FoothilIs (outerop) and Plains (subsurfaee), western Canada Sedimentary Basin. techniques because of the fine-grained
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Engineering, The University of Calgary Calgary, Alberta T2N IN4, Canada ELIZA CZARNECKA AND Abstract-Montmorillonite...Abstract-Montmorillonite , kaolinite, illite, and chlorite were found to adsorb bitumen and its pentanesoluble...conventional recovery methods occupY about 48,000 km 2 of Alberta. They form four major and several smaller deposits...and clay minerals, wh ich are mostly kaolinite, illite, chlorite, and montmorillonite (Carrigy and Kramers...irreversibly onto montmorillonite, kaolinite, and illite under near-anhydrous laboratory conditions. A typical
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Blairmore Group (Cretaceous) Southern Alberta Foothills, Canada E d w a r d D. G h e n t a n d Bruce E...Department of Geology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4 Received January 2, 1974 Abstract...Cretaceous Blairmore Group of the southern Alberta Foothills, Canada. Zeolites are restricted ~ plagioclase-rich...D. Ghent and B. E. Miller ~_.-----56 o t ! ALBERTA i "% p B R I ]"I S H ~'~.',~*.~o[garY I~ \...stratigraphic sections of the Blairmore Group in southern Alberta was made (Fig. 1). Stratigraphy and Generalized
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
BOON and BRIAN HITCHON Alberta Research Council, Edmonton, Alberta. Canada T6G 2c2 (Received August...montmotihoniie was formed probabiy through a transitional illite-montmorilfonite interstratified layer structure...that exist during wet forward combustion in the Alberta oil sand deposits. BXBN f 1980f presented results...reflection as a shoulder on the illite reflection. tively identified as illite-montmorillonite), chlorite...reflections were broad and almost merged with that of illite (Fig. 1). For the randomly oriented samples, the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
recovery of heavy oil, Lloydminster, Saskatchewan, Canada RENE LEFEBVRE a n d IAN HUTCHEON Sedimentology...Geophysics. The University of Calgary, Calgary. Alberta, T2N 1N4. Canada Abstract~X-ray diffraction analysis...pilot projects, Lloydminster area, Saskatchewan, Canada. The objectives were to document the potential...small reductions in porosity and permeability. Illite formation is observed in the steamflood pilot but...observed at the producing wells. During steamtiooding illite and chlorite are formed; the smectite which is
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Department of Geology University of Calgary Calgary 44, Alberta Canada A. A. LEVINSON HAROLD C. HELUESON...expected to be trioctahedml. The composition of illite with a high magnesium content and no iron does...Department of Geology The University of Calgary Calgary 44, Alberta, Canada P. BAYLISS
Report (chapter)
http://sp.lyellcollection.org/ at University of Calgary on October 2, 2012 Geological Society, London...http://sp.lyellcollection.org/ at University of Calgary on October 2, 2012 Clastic diagenesis S. D. Burley...http://sp.lyellcollection.org/ at University of Calgary on October 2, 2012 190 S. D. Burley, J. D. Kantorowicz...http://sp.lyellcollection.org/ at University of Calgary on October 2, 2012 Clastic diagenesis FOAM Group...http://sp.lyellcollection.org/ at University of Calgary on October 2, 2012 S. D. Burley, J. D. Kantorowicz
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N lN4 ‘Department of Physics, The University of Calgary, Calgary...Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N lN4 (Received February 10, 1989; accepted in revisedform October 24, 1989)...of bitumen at the Tucker Lake pilot, Cold Lake, Alberta. Two possible sources for the produced CO2 are...Present address: Geological Survey of Canada, N.W., Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2L 2A7. Thermal recovery During...clay mineral fraction show kaolinite, smectite, illite, and chlorite, in that order of abundance. SEM
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University of Calgary, Calgary 44, Alberta, Canada &&&--Bulk sediment samples from two northern Alberta fresh...address: Atlantic Richfield Canada Ltd., 660 G&mess Honse, Calgasy 2, Alberta, Canada. 1359 1360 F. J. DEWIS...minerals could be useful, whereas previously only illite was considered to be valid in paleosalinity interpretations...delta, Lake Claire, Alberta; and (3) Athabasca River delta, Lake Athabasca, Alberta. The stippled area...area in central Alberta (southern part of the basin) locates the outcrop area of montmorillonite Upper Cretaceous
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario N6A 5B7, Canada Abstract—In situ thermal recovery methods such...from the Clearwater Formation oil sands of Alberta, Canada. The injection of hot fluids during CSS has...Clearwater Formation in the Primrose area of Alberta, Canada (northern portion of the Cold Lake deposit;...Clearwater Formation oil sands deposit of Cold Lake, Alberta (Figure 1). The Lower Cretaceous Clearwater Formation...Athabasca, and Cold Lake oil sands deposits in Alberta, Canada, and the locations of the Wolf Lake, Cold Lake
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
surface waters of the Mackenzie River drainage basin, Canada-I. Factors controlling inorganic composition S...the Environment, Alberta, Canada Council of Alberta, 72511th Ave. S.W., Calgary 3, HITCHON Edmonton...Edmonton 7, Alberta, Canada* and A. Department of Geology, A. University LEVINSON of Calgary, Calgary...Calgary 44, Alberta, (Received 25 September 1970; accepted in revised form ‘7 Februaq Canada 1972) Ab&&---The...surface waters of the Mackenzie River drainage basin, Canada are virtually unpolluted. A suite of 101 surface
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Diagenesis and isotopic evolution of porewaters in the Alberta Deep Basin: The Faiher Member and Cadomin Formation...‘Department of Geology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, T6G 2E3 *Department of Geology,...University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, N6A 5B7 (Received October 5, 1988; accepted in...Abstract-Diagenesis and porewater evolution in the Alberta Deep Basin have been studied by combining results...followed by later albitization, precipitation of illite and local calcite cement, and pressure solution
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Department of Ge~gy. The Uniuersity o] Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, r"anada al~Ld J. J. DAY Gulf Research...(l/ dolomite + kaoliuite ÷ quartz. (2) dolomite + illite + quartz, (31 dolomite ~"feldspar + quartZ, and...simihr conditions with the addit!onal reactants oi" illite and feldspar. Ammonium-ch~:trged hydrothermal re~...Nakahira [4] ). Additional ma~erials used are the illite from Fithiaa, Illinois (A. P. I. 351, which was...reflections on X-ray diffraction patterns. The Wi.~consin illite of Gaudette [5] is monomineralic. The albite and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Departmentof Geology,The Universityof Alberta, Edmonton,Alberta T6G 2E3, Canada DAVID R. SHAW,* Departmentof...Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada AND KARLIS MUEHLENBACHS Departmentof Geology,The Universityof Alberta, Edmonton,Alberta...Alberta T6G 2E3, Canada Abstract Oxygenisotopeanalysesof whole-rockand mineral samplesfrom countryrocks...ratios * PresentAddress:Petro-Canada, Box2844, Calgary,Alberta T2P 3E3, Canada 0361-0128/84/319/933-1452...and Edmunds(1977a), the Middle Aidridge a high illite/kaoliniteratio in the countryrocksto a Formationis
Report (issue)
SURVEY OF CANADA BULLETIN 500 EXPLORING FOR MINERALS IN ALBERTA: GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA GEOSCIENCE...GEOSCIENCE CONTRIBUTIONS, CANADA-ALBERTA AGREEMENT ON MINERAL DEVELOPMENT (1992-1995) Edited by R - W. Macqueen...SURVEY OF CANADA BULLETIN 500 EXPLORING FOR MINERALS IN ALBERTA: GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA GEOSCIENCE...GEOSCIENCE CONTRIBUTIONS, CANADA-ALBERTA AGREEMENT ON MINERAL DEVELOPMENT (1992-1995) Edited by R. W. Macqueen...Queen in Right of Canada, 1997 Catalogue No. M42-500E ISBN 0-660-16725-5 Available in Canada from Geological
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Apatite in the Triassic Doig Phosphate Zone, Western Canada Sedimentary Basin Pablo Lacerda Silva * and R...University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada; bustin@mail.ubc.ca * Correspondence: pablols@alumni...Formation, in the Triassic section of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin. The DPZ has a maximum thickness...northeastern British Columbia and west-central Alberta. In this study, we characterize the significance... in the Middle Triassic section of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin (WCSB). The DPZ provides an opportunity
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Department of Geology University of Calgary Calgary 44, Alberta Canada A. A. LEVINSON HAROLD C. HELUESON...expected to be trioctahedml. The composition of illite with a high magnesium content and no iron does...Department of Geology The University of Calgary Calgary 44, Alberta, Canada P. BAYLISS
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geological Survey of Canada, Natural Resources Canada, 3303-33rd St. N.W., Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2L 2A7 Department...Geoscience, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive N.W., Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 1N4 a r t i c l...conducted in the Paskapoo Formation of southern Alberta, Canada. Our study area focused on a region where two...Introduction Groundwater in the Interior Plains of Canada is known for having high-sulphate content (Grasby...Stempvoort et al., 1994), often exceeding Environment Canada water quality guidelines of 500 mg/l SO4 for domestic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
The University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N IN4 2GeologicalSurvey of Canada, 3303 33rd St. NW...NW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2L 2A7 (Received August 6, I99 I; accepted in revised form September 27...“pure” minerals such as muscovite, rather than illite. This results in somewhat lower, more conservative...overgrowths in the Frio. In addition, smectite and illite are known to be present in the associated shales...feldspar and micas and the formation of authigenic illite and albite. The diagenetic mineralogy reported
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Montreal, QC H3A 0C5, Canada; alessandro.navarra@mcgill.ca National Research Council Canada, 1200 Montreal Road...Road, Ottawa, ON K1A 0R6, Canada; patrick.mercier@corem.qc.ca (P.H.J.M.); Bussaraporn.Patarachao@nrc-cnrc...1180 Rue de la Minéralogie, Quebec, QC G1N 1X7, Canada Correspondence: ryan.wilson@mail.mcgill.ca Abstract:...some of the largest bitumen deposits in the world, Canada has an active oil mining and refining industry...billion m3 ), over 80% of which are concentrated in Canada, Venezuela and the United States [1]. Boasting
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and Geophysics, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada (Received March 20, 2000; accepted...O-isotopes, and that B-isotope analyses of authigenic illite can be a valuable geochemical tracer of fluid/rock...interactions. Boron isotope ratios in authigenic illite (pore filling) and muscovite (stylolites) from...from the hydrocarbon source region. Authigenic illite formed in the Pierre shale meta-bentonite shows...Incorporation of 500 ppm B in illite formed at 500°C shows that illite is a host for B even at metamorphic
 
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