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It is shown that glauconite-bearing interbeds are widespread in the layer-by-layer studied sections on the Sea of Okhotsk coast (Mainach section) and Kheisliveem River valley (Kavran section), the volcanoterrigenous rocks of the Kovachin, Amanin, and Gakkhin formations of the Paleogene in western Kamchatka (Upper Eocene-Lower Oligocene boundary beds). Detailed mineralogical and structural-crystallochemical characteristics of glauconite from the Amanin Formation are presented. It is suggested that such glauconite should not be used for geochronological purposes.
Some specific features of glauconite formation, particularly, the preservation of specific morphological forms at high accumulation rates of volcano-terrigenous rocks, are discussed. Possibility of the formation of glauconite with the active influence of bacterial metabolism is considered.
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Original Russian Text © A.R. Geptner, T.A. Ivanovskaya, E.V. Pokrovskaya, N.P. Kuralenko, 2008, published in Litologiya i Poleznye Iskopaemye, 2008, No. 3, pp. 255–279.
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Geptner, A.R., Ivanovskaya, T.A., Pokrovskaya, E.V. et al. Glauconite from Paleogene volcano-terrigenous rocks in Western Kamchatka. Lithol Miner Resour 43, 228–249 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0024490208030036
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