Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-dh8gc Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-03T03:01:32.587Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

The origin of English fuller's earths

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

R. H. S. Robertson
R. H. S. Robertson*
Affiliation:
Dunmore, Pitlochry, Perthshire
Get access

Abstract

It is suggested that the source materials of the English Aptian fuller’s earths were soils of the Anglo-Belgian Land and that montmorillonite is the characteristic clay mineral of marine deposits formed when old land surfaces of low relief are transgressed.

Type
Research Article
Information
Clay Minerals Bulletin , Volume 4 , Issue 26 , December 1961 , pp. 282 - 287
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1961

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Allen, V. T., 1934. Econ. Geol., 29, 590.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Boswell, P. G. H., 1924. Geol. Mag., 6, 246.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Broughton, M. N., 1932. J. sediment. Petrol., 2, 135.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Butterworth, B., and Honeyborne, D. B., 1952. Trans. Brit. Ceram. Soc., 51, 211.Google Scholar
Cox, A. J., 1918. Proc. Geol. Ass., Lond., 29, 150.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Davies, G. M., 1915-1918. Proc. Croydon nat. Hist. sci. Soc., 8, 53.Google Scholar
Fife, H. E., 1934. N.Z. J. Sci. Tech., 15, 386.Google Scholar
George, T. N., I958. Proc. Yorks. geol. Soc., 31, 227 (Plate 15).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Grim, R. E., 1933. Econ. GeoL, 28, 344.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Grim, R. E., 1935. Econ. GeoL, 30, 825.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hofmann, F., 1958. Ecl. geol. Helv., 51, 65.Google Scholar
Kerr, P. F., 1931. Econ. Geol., 26, 153.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kerr, P. F., 1932. Amer. Min., 17, 192.Google Scholar
Kirkaldy, J. F., 1947. Proc. GeoL Ass., Lond., 58, 231.Google Scholar
Ktrkaldy, J. F., 1961. Private communication.Google Scholar
MacEwan, D. M. C., 1956. Clays and Clay Minerals (Swineford, A., editor). Nat. Acad. Sci.—-Nat. Res. Counc., Washington, Publ. 456, p. 166.Google Scholar
Maraan Vivaldi, J. L, CANO-RUUZ, J., and FONXBOTE, J. M., 1956. Clays and Clay Minerals (A. Swineford, editor). Nat. Acad. Sci.—Nat. Res. Counc., Washington, Publ. 456, p. 181.Google Scholar
Murcmson, R. I., 1839. The Silurian System, Part 1, pp. 304, 434–435.Google Scholar
Neuwirth, E., 1953. Miner. petrogr. Mitt., Ser. 3, 3, 167.Google Scholar
Newton, E. F., 1934. Econ. GeoL, 29, 307.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Newton, E. F., 1937. Proc. Geol. Ass., Lond., 48, 175.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Okazawa, T., 1928. Sci. pap. Inst. phys. chem. Res. Tokyo, 7, 776.Google Scholar
Vitalis, I., 1936. Mitt. berg-u, hüttmdän. Abt. Univ. Sopron, 8, 182.Google Scholar
Wills, L. J., 1951. Palaeogeographical Atlas. Blackie, London and Glasgov Google Scholar
Wood, G. V., 1956. Proc. GeoL Ass., Lond., 67, 124.CrossRefGoogle Scholar