Probing the memory of mud

Alan Kemp ()
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Alan Kemp: School of Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton, Southampton Oceanography Centre

Nature, 2000, vol. 406, issue 6799, 951-952

Abstract: Until recently it was assumed that most of the quartz found in mudrocks was eroded from older rocks. A careful study of ancient mudrocks now suggests that the dissolved skeletons of marine plankton are the main source of quartz.

Date: 2000
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DOI: 10.1038/35023211

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