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Brickearth and Clay-with-flints from Kent

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

P. A. Sabine
Affiliation:
Geological Survey and Museum, Exhibition Road, London
B. R. Young
Affiliation:
Geological Survey and Museum, Exhibition Road, London
J. Dangerfield
Affiliation:
Geological Survey and Museum, Exhibition Road, London
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Abstract

Particle-size analyses of brickearth and Clay-with-flints from Kent, England, are presented. A calcareous sample of brickearth is comparable to loess. In the clay fraction, there is more illite (or glauconite) than kaolin; and there is some chlorite. The clay fraction of the Clay-with-flints consists of smectite, illite and quartz and is probably derived directly from the Chalk. Black sand-grade nodules are manganiferous.

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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1963

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