Clays

Clays

Author
Alain Meunier
Publication Year
2005
Publisher
Springer
Language
English
Document Type
Book
Faculty / Subject Heading
Environmental Science

Here is a comprehensive and up to-do-date presentation of the origins, and properties of clay minerals at the Earths surface. Concluding chapters show that clay minerals can form in variety of different environments: meteorites, lavas, subduction zones, among others.


Keywords: Earth and environmental science / Clay Minerals / Clays / Crystalline Structure / Isotopic Composition / Kinematic Conditions / Sediment / Diagenesis / Mineralogy / Soil / Thermodynamics