Recent Sediments of Monterey Bay - Additional Mineralogical Data.

Abstract

The heavy mineralogy of the sand fraction for beach samples reported by Sayles (1966) and 10 new offshore samples from South Monterey Bay was determined optically. For each sample the percentage of the more diagnostic transparent minerals is plotted graphically in order of persistence: zircon, garnet, biotite, apatite, clinozoisite and epidote, lawsonite, green hornblende, oxy-horneblende, glaucophane, sphene, zoisite, augite, jadeite, hypersthene, enstatite, and tremolite and actinolite. Additional data on accessory transparent minerals, composite grains (rock fragments) and opaque minerals are listed with each graph. An updated bibliography is presented to include all new work on the geology and sediment of Monterey Bay. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1971
Accession Number
AD0730793

Entities

People

  • P. Wilde
  • T. Yancey

Organizations

  • University of California, Berkeley

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Bibliographies
  • Chemical Compounds
  • Composite Materials
  • Geology
  • Inorganic Chemicals
  • Inosilicates
  • Mineralogy
  • Minerals
  • Offshore
  • Sediments
  • Sorosilicates

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science
  • Geology

Readers

  • Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) Technology.
  • Materials Science and Engineering.
  • Oceanography.