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Observations on the formation and evolution ofclays

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

S. Henin*
Affiliation:
Station Centrale d'Agronomie, Versailles
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Extract

At the present time two hypotheses have been proposed to explain theformation of clays. One of them supposes that these minerals arise from thecrystallisation of a gel due to the breaking down of the original mineral;one would thus have schematically:

Original mineral → Gel. → Clay.

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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1947

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