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- MakaleYalnız künye2021Scopus SJRQ1Mineralogical and Chemical Characteristics of Clay Areas, Gümüşhane Region (NE Turkey), and Their Detection Using the Crósta Technique with Landsat 7 and 8 Images
Vural, Alaaddin; Akpinar, İbrahim; Sipahi, Ferkan
The clay areas in Gümüşhane (NE Turkey) were examined in mineralogical and geochemical terms, and by remote sensing methods. X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscope and chemical analysis were completed on samples from 11 selected clay areas in the region. Within the scope of remote sensing, Landsat 7 and 8 satellite images of the region were processed with the Crósta technique to assess the clay areas. The Kale and Tamzı clays are contained within a Late Cretaceous turbiditic series. The clays in Canca, Refene and Çamlıca occur in intensively hydrothermally altered volcanic rocks of the Eocene Alibaba Formation. The other clay areas are in the Liassic Şenköy Formation consisting of a volcano-sedimentary series. The clays in the Şenköy Formation are generally below the coal levels. While mainly illite and lesser kaolinite were determined in Dörtkonak, Alemdar, Yukarı Kov and Çamlıca, the clays in Tahnis and Kabantaşı are smectite. Tekke, Canca and Refene clays are kaolinite with smaller amounts of illite, whereas Kale and Tamzı clays are mainly chlorite with lower content of illite–smectite interlayers. Illites in Dörtkonak, Alemdar, Yukarı Kov and Çamlıca are poor in iron and magnesium and formed by hydrothermal alteration of feldspars in the host rocks. Findings of the remote sensing studies using Landsat 7 and 8 datasets were compatible with the results obtained from field observations and general geological studies, and so it is concluded that the Crósta technique provided good results for exploration of clay occurrences and their determination in the region.
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İncele - MakaleAçık Erişim2020Scopus SJRQ3Nature of clays in late cretaceous dacitic rocks in the eastern sakarya zone (Ne turkey): A geochemical and isotopic approach
Sipahi, Ferkan; Gücer, Mehmet Ali; Sadiklar, Münür Burhan
Late Cretaceous felsic rocks are common in the eastern Pontides (NE Turkey). These rocks developed as an island arc from the Jurassic to the Miocene; they also host numerous volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits. The Late Cretaceous dacites that outcrop around Zigana Mountain (Gümüşhane, NE Turkey) were exposed to intensive hydrothermal alteration. Widespread hydrothermal alteration of Late Cretaceous dacite in Zigana Mountain has led to the formation of well-developed clay minerals. Their main alteration products are sericite, chlorite, and carbonates (ankerite and calcite). The clay minerals identified by X-ray diffraction and differential thermal analysis include illite, chlorite, small amounts of kaolinite, and smectite. The polytype of illite is 2M1. Illites formed as a result of hydrothermal alteration of feldspars; they are also Fe-and Mg-poor. Chlorite is characterized by decreasing Fe/(Fe+ Mg) ratio with increasing alteration grade and has a trioctahedral structure. Chlorite geothermometer calculations (100–300°C) reflect the activities of hydrothermal solutions. Chlorite forms in more alkaline conditions compared with illite, as its formation is associated with the presence of carbonates. Oxygen and hydrogen stable isotope values, K-Ar dating of illites, and textural and chemical evidence suggest that clays might have formed mainly by alteration of minerals in dacitic rocks with hydrothermal fluids of magmatic origin during the Campanian under acidic–weak alkaline conditions.
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