Table 1 Mineral and chemical structure of core plugs acquired from XRD and XRF.

From: Mitigating fines migration in low salinity water flooding of clay rich sandstones using TiO2 Saponin Zr nanocomposites

Minerals composition

Mass%

Chemical composition

Mass%

Quartz

95

SiO2

98.5

Kaolinite

3.2

Al2O3

1.1

Chlorite

1

Fe2O3

0.3

illite

0.5

MgO

0.06

Anorthite

0.3

TiO2

0.04