Clay minerals and major elements concentrations of Zhuanglang Miocene red clay in Longzhong Basin, China

Qiansuo Wang; Yougui Song

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2018.01.030

Clay minerals and major elements concentrations of Zhuanglang Miocene red clay in Longzhong Basin, China

Data Brief. 2018 Jan 31:17:297-304. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2018.01.030. eCollection 2018 Apr.

Authors

Qiansuo Wang¹, Yougui Song²

Affiliations

¹ Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Water and Soil Conservation and Environmental Protection, College of Resources and Environment, Linyi University, Linyi 276000, China.
² State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an 710061, China.

Abstract

This article presents clay minerals and major elements data of Miocene red clay from Zhuanglang core (ZL) from the eastern Longzhong Basin, China. The dataset including the contents of main clay minerals such as smectite, kaolinite, illite and chlorite and other important clay minerals parameters as illite crystallinity, Illite 5 Å/10 Å, kaolinite/(illite +chlorite) ratio and major elements and its ratio as SiO₂, Al₂O₃, MgO, Na₂O, K₂O, K₂O/Al₂O₃ and SiO₂/Al₂O₃ in the Mid-Miocene climatic optimum (MMCO). The X-ray diffraction (XRD) and X-ray Fluorescence (XRF) experiments were made at the State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The data provide the evidence for understanding the MMCO and its driving factors.