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Surface Area Measurements on Clays

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2024

Josephus Thomas Jr.
Affiliation:
Illinois State Geological Survey, Urbana, Illinois, U.S.A.
Bruce F. Bohor
Affiliation:
Illinois State Geological Survey, Urbana, Illinois, U.S.A.
Robert F. Frost
Affiliation:
Illinois State Geological Survey, Urbana, Illinois, U.S.A.
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Abstract

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Letters to the Editor
Copyright
Copyright © 1970 The Clay Minerals Society

Footnotes

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The comments presented in this paper are those of Thomas and Bohor in defense of their published work. Frost contributed the valuable supplementary data and calculations in the plot of Fig. 1.

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