Clay mineralogy

The amount of herbicide sorbed by a given soil is influenced by properties of both the soil and the herbicide. Important properties related to the soil s retention abiHty include clay mineralogy, organic matter content, soil pH, and iron and aluminum oxide content. These properties, in turn, affect the... 

R. W. Grim, Clay Mineralogy, McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., New York, 1968, 596 pp. 

Talc and Pyrophyllite. Talc (qv) and pyrophjlhte are 2 1 layer clay minerals having no substitution in either the tetrahedral or octahedral layer. These are electrostatically neutral particles (x = 0) and may be considered ideal 2 1 layer hydrous phyUosiHcates. The stmctural formula of talc, the trioctahedral form, is Mg3Si402Q(0H)2 and the stmctural formula of pyrophylUte, the dioctahedral form, is Al2Si402Q (OH)2 (106). Ferripyrophyllite has the same stmcture as pyrophylUte, but has ferric iron instead of aluminum in the octahedral layer. Because these are electrostatically neutral they do not contain interlayer materials. These minerals are important in clay mineralogy because they can be thought of as pure 2 1 layer minerals (106). 

R. C. Mackenzie, ed.. The Differential Thermal Investigation of Clays, Mineralogical Society, London, 1957. 

Montmorillonite clays absorb water readily, swell greatly and confer highly plastic properties to a soil. Thus soil stress (Section 14.8) occurs most frequently in these soils and less commonly in predominantly kaolinitic types. Similarly, a soil high in bentonite will show more aggressive corrosion than a soil with a comparable percentage of kaolinite. A chalky soil usually shows low corrosion rates. Clay mineralogy and the relation of clays to corrosion deserves attention from corrosion engineers. Many important relationships are not fully understood and there is need for extensive research in this area. 

Soil physical properties most likely to be altered by biomass burning are soil structure, soil wettability, and clay mineralogy (Table HI) (43). The destruction of organic matter results in losses of soil structure, increases in bulk density, diminished aggregate stability and decreases in macropore space (44). 

Infiltration rate Water content Particle size distribution Frozen soil Bulk density Clay mineralogy Macro porosity... 

For compacted, low-permeability soil liners, the U.S. EPA draft guidance recommends natural soil materials, such as clays and silts. However, soils amended or blended with different additives (e.g., lime, cement, bentonite clays, and borrow clays) may also meet the current selection criteria of low hydraulic conductivity, or permeability, and sufficient thickness to prevent hazardous constituent migration out of the landfill unit. Therefore, U.S. EPA does not exclude compacted soil liners that contain these amendments. Additional factors affecting the design and construction of CCLs include plasticity index (PI), Atterburg limits, grain sizes, clay mineralogy, and attenuation properties. 

European J Lipid Sci Technol 103 505-550 Grim RE (1968) Clay mineralogy, 2nd edn. McGraw-Hill, New York Groisman L, Rav-Acha C, Gerstl Z, Mingelgrin U (2004) Sorption and detoxification of toxic compounds by a bifunctional organoclay. J Environ Qual 33 1930-1936... 

More studies of the clay mineralogy of the C-T boundary layer are needed. These may indicate if the boundary deposition was associated with an extraordinary event. 

Grim, R. E. (1968), Clay Mineralogy, 2nd Edition, McGraw Hill, New York. 

Fundamental structural units of detrltal silicates, (a) octahedron, (b) octahedral layer found in sheet silicates, (c) tetrahedron, and (d) tetrahedral layer found in sheet silicates. Source From Grim, R. E. (1968). Clay Mineralogy, 2nd ed., McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, p. 52. 

At the boundary between uplands and wetlands there is, in some circumstances, an interaction between organic matter accumulation in sediments and the development of wetland conditions. Some level of organic matter accumulation is required to drive anaerobic metabolism. But also, because, in general, well-decomposed organic matter improves the water holding capacity of mineral soils, particularly in medium to coarse texmred sediments, and particularly if the clay mineralogy is dominated by low activity kaolinitic clays, there is a feedback between organic matter accumulation and the extent and duration of water saturation. 

Staunton S, Nye PH. 1987. The contribution of sorbed sodium and calcium to the selfdiffusion of these cations in soils with different clay mineralogies. Journal of Soil... 

Percival, J. B., Torrance, J. K. Bell, K. 1993. Clay mineralogy and isotope geochemistry of the alteration halo at the Cigar Lake uranium deposit. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 30, 689-704. 

Wilson M (2003) Clay Mineralogical and related characteristics of geophagic materials. J Chem Ecol 7 1525-1547... 

It should be possible, through a unification of chemical and mineral structure data and the results of experimental studies on silicate phase equilibria, to develop a general picture of clay mineralogy based upon the known chemical behavior of phyllosilicates under various physical conditions. The major elements for such a study are presently available in a rough outline. It is fact the purpose of this essay to summarize the available information and create a general outline of clay mineral petrology. It is hoped that such an attempt meets with some success and, more important in the long run, that such an attempt will interest others in similar exercises, especially those of precision and revision. 

Now we might consider what is in fact the common clay mineralogy of sandstones. Shelton (1964), Bucke and Mankin (1971) find it to be most often dominated by kaolinite. This mineral although hydrous, is conspicuous by its lack of alkalis. Thus one could suspect that alkali activity in pore solutions of sandstones is, or was, frequently low, lower at any rate than adjacent mica-bearing shales. Laboratory studies by Hanshaw and Coplen (1973) and Khareka and Berry (1973) would give a plausible explanation for such a phenomenon. If solutions are forced hydrostatically across the argillaceous membrane, ionic species in solution are selectively... 

This indicates that a general geothermal pattern has been established in the total column and that rapidly circulating warmer water has only local effects on the clay mineralogy. The mineralogy of these different types of semi-permeable rocks corresponds, on a depth-temperature basis, very closely with that found in pelitic shale rocks of other studies. It is likely therefore that high permeability gives a noticeably different set of chemical parameters (intensive variables) to a rock whereas medium to low permeability can be assimilated to a "closed" system where rock and fluid are effectively part of the same physicochemical unit. 

Heaviest reliance is placed upon natural occurence and laboratory equilibrium studies. This is a method currently practiced with great success in the study of metamorphic and igneous rocks which finds a logical application in the field of clay mineralogy. Many of the results of such reasoning will be only approximate, mainly due to imperfect knowledge... 

The following pages give a review of the chemistry of natural minerals, their typical occurrence in nature and their common mineral associations. This review is used to establish the major groupings of the common clay mineral species as a function of the chemical systems to which they can be related. Because various forms of silica as well as zeolites and organic materials are commonly associated with clays, these materials have been considered in the same manner as the phyllosilicates. It is evident that they have an influence on the clay mineralogy and that they form an integral part of clays in the broad sense of the term. However, they are not normally considered to be clay minerals. 

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