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The origin of English fuller's earths

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

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

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Research Article
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1961

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