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Observations on the formation and evolution of clays

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

S. Henin
S. Henin*
Affiliation:
Station Centrale d'Agronomie, Versailles
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Extract

At the present time two hypotheses have been proposed to explain the formation of clays. One of them supposes that these minerals arise from the crystallisation of a gel due to the breaking down of the original mineral; one would thus have schematically:

Original mineral → Gel. → Clay.

Type
Research Article
Information
Clay Minerals Bulletin , Volume 0 , Issue 1 , October 1947 , pp. 24 - 25
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1947

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