 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Cla_vs and Clay Minerals, Vol. 49, No. 5, 374-3RO, 2001. BASELINE STUDIES OF THE CLAY MINERALS SOCIETY...Braemar Circle, Crystal Lake, Illinois 60014-6604, USA Drying was in blower-equipped ovens at s 100°C....In any clay deposit, the nature of the mineral assemblage and the composition of individual clay minerals...different types of clay minerals. Results from different laboratories on ostensibly the same clay material may...may indeed not contain an assembly of identical clay minerals. Such confusion slows the understanding |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the course of many years Dr. Grim has studied deposits of bentonite and collected samples of bentonites...a bent oni t e is a clay which is composed d o m i n a n t l y of a smectite clay mineral, and whose physical...physical properties are dictated by this clay mineral. T hough most bentonites originated by the alteration...alteration of volcanic ash or tuff, there are m any deposits whose origin cann o t be established definitely...to an e x t e n t to be o f commercial value. Deposits are generally composed of palygorskite or a smectite |
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