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FEET)
                                                             ABOUT
                                                            NO-UONTMORILLONITE
                                                              10.000
                                                             LEVEL  (USUALLY
                                                              TO
                                                              9,000
                                               HYDROCARBONS
                                                                         LAYER
                                                 N THIS
                                                MADE
                                                  BUT  NO
                                                OR
                                                 AVAILABLE
                                                                         MIXED
                                                FORYEO
                                               MOST
                                                  ZONE
                                                                         1-1
                                                                         ILLlTE
                                                                             my   KAOLINITE   AND   ILLITE   hydrocarbons  from mudrocks.  to  release of  deposited  in  marine  environments and  its probable  relation
                                                                         CURVE     (Modified after Powers,  1967, fig. 3, p.  1245; in Rieke and Chilingarian,  1974, fig. 58, p.  11  1. Courtesy of Am. Assoc.  Pet. Geol.)
                                                                         WATER-ESCAPE   MONTMORILLONITE   various  clays  when
                                                                             mi
                                                                                 of
                                                                         1-1
                                   OF   POSITION   CANNOT   AS   TO   ALTERS   IS   BETWEEN   DESOReEO   FREE   AS
                                   SEVERAL  MONOLAYERS   UYOROGEN   IN   HELD   MONTMORlLLONlTE   IN   SQUEEZED   BE   COMPACTION  MONTMORlLLONlTE   WATER  ILLITE.   HYDROGEN   LAYERS  IS   UNIT   ANOTRANSFERRED   TO   WATER   POSITIONS.   HYDROCARBONS
                      REMARKS       BONDED  WATER   INTERLAYER   WT  BY   PRESSURES.   THAT   BONDED   INTERPARTICLE   OVERBURDEN   Fig.  2-17, Compaction  history
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