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  • Front Cover; Miocene of the S.E. United States: A Model for Chemical Sedimentation in a Peri-Marine Environment; Copyright Page; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; CONTENTS; CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION; The Problem; Nature of palygorskite; CHAPTER 2. FRAMEWORK; Regional; Georgia-Florida; Structural and isopach maps; Lithofacies; CHAPTER 3. REGIONAL CLAY-MINERAL DISTRIBUTION; Florida; Echols County, Georgia; Regional cross-sections; Trough; CHAPTER 4. MINES
  • LOWER MIOCENE; Introduction; La Camelia Mine (MC-1); La Camelia Mine (MC-2); La Camelia Mine outcrop; Adjacent mines; Midway Mine; Gunn Farm Mine
  • Chesebrough MineSummary; Attapulgus, Georgia; CHAPTER 5. MINES
  • MIDDLE MIOCENE; Cairo Production Company Mine; Summary; Adjacent cores; Cherokee Mine area; Waverly Mine; Discussion; CHAPTER 6. TEXTURE; CHAPTER 7. ELECTRON MICROGRAPHS; MC-1Core; Other locations; CHAPTER 8. CHEMISTRY; Silicates; Thermodynamic calculations; Phosphate; CHAPTER 9. OVERVIEW; Palygorskite in the Ocean; Global distribution; Palygorskites in space and time; APPENDIX; X-ray; Quantitative X-ray analysis; REFERENCES