PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Moberly, Ralph
TI  - Amorphous marine muds from tropically weathered basalt
AID  - 10.2475/ajs.261.8.767
DP  - 1963 Oct 01
TA  - American Journal of Science
PG  - 767--772
VI  - 261
IP  - 8
4099  - http://www.ajsonline.org/content/261/8/767.short
4100  - http://www.ajsonline.org/content/261/8/767.full
SO  - Am J Sci1963 Oct 01; 261
AB  - Clay-sized detrital sediments of Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, closely reflect the intense tropical weathering conditions of their basaltic source area. Most of the silica and alumina present is amorphous allophane or in weakly crystalline halloysite. It is suggested that unstable muds of this composition may have been the raw materials for authigenesis of illite found in old sedimentary rocks.