Complexes of clay minerals of quaternary sediments in canyon-cone system of the river Shahe (Black Sea)

Abstract

A distribution of clay minerals in Quaternary sediments are revealed in the sedimentary system canyon — deep-water cone of the Shahe river in the Black sea. It is established that the ratio of illite, chlorite, smectite and kaolinite sustained by area and section is determined by the transfer of sedimentary material by turbidity flows through the canyon with the formation of a unified mineralogical province.