Pyritization of the coastal sediments in the Kelantan plains in the Malay Peninsula during the Holocene

• Main Authors: Mohd Sufian Kang, Enio Kang, Jusop, Shamsuddin, Ishak, Che Fauziah, Mohd Hanif, Ahmad Husni
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Science Publications 2011
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/23407/1/ajabssp.2011.393.402.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/23407/; http://www.thescipub.com/abstract/10.3844/ajabssp.2011.393.402

Problem statement: For a number of geological reasons a proportion of the present coastal plains in the Malay Peninsula were inundated by seawater in the past when pyrite in some of the soils is believed to have been mineralized. Random survey of these sites showed a unique distribution and depth of...