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Mineral composition of sedimentary matter in the Caspian Sea

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Data on the mineral composition of sedimentary matter and its fluxes in the sediment system of the Caspian Sea are presented. River runoff, aerosols, particulate matter from sediment traps, and the upper layer (0–1 cm) of bottom sediments are considered. The contents of detrital minerals (quartz, albite, and K-feldspar), clay minerals (illite, chlorite, and kaolinite), and carbonates (calcite, Mg-calcite, dolomite, aragonite, and rhodochrosite) are determined. Gypsum was found in bottom sediments but is absent in the other object of the sediment system.

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Original Russian Text © V.N. Lukashin, A.P. Lisitzin, O.M. Dara, N.V. Kozina, A.A. Klyuvitkin, A.N. Novigatsky, 2016, published in Okeanologiya, 2016, Vol. 56, No. 6, pp. 935–945.

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Lukashin, V.N., Lisitzin, A.P., Dara, O.M. et al. Mineral composition of sedimentary matter in the Caspian Sea. Oceanology 56, 852–862 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0001437016060096

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