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Some interstratified clay minerals from basic igneous rocks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

W. W. Smith*
Affiliation:
The Macaulay Institute for Soil Research, Craigiebuckler, Aberdeen
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Abstract

Fresh samples of some Scottish basic igneous rocks contain two-component interstratified minerals consisting mainly of layers of chlorite, swelling chlorite and saponite in different combinations. The differential thermal curves are characteristic of swelling chlorite.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1960

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