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NO-UONTMORILLONITE   ABOUT  LEVEL  (USUALLY   FEET)   10.000   TO   9,000   hydrocarbons  from mudrocks.









                                               HYDROCARBONS   MADE   OR   N THIS   BUT  NO   LAYER   to  release of




                                               MOST   FORYEO   AVAILABLE   ZONE   MIXED



                                                                         1-1
                                                                             KAOLINITE


                                                                             AND
                                                                         ILLlTE   ILLITE  deposited  in  marine  environments and  its probable  relation
                                                                             my






                                                                         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




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                                   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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