Clays

Clays
ISBN-10
3540271414
ISBN-13
9783540271413
Category
Science
Pages
472
Language
English
Published
2005-12-05
Publisher
Springer Science & Business Media
Author
Alain Meunier

Description

Here is a comprehensive and up to-do-date presentation of the origins, and properties of clay minerals at the Earth ́s surface. The text reviews the relatively simple laws that govern the chemical or isotopic composition and the crystalline structure of clays, and then discusses their genesis and alteration. Concluding chapters show that clay minerals can form in variety of different environments: meteorites, lavas, subduction zones, among others.

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