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A reawakening of interest in the role of amorphous clays in soils derived from non-volcanic crystalline igneous and sedimentary rocks can probably be dated by the review of Mitchell et al. (1964). They pointed out that the properties of many such soils could not be interpreted adequately in terms of crystalline clay minerals. Progress in defining these amorphous components has, however, proved slow, and even in 1977 Wada could report that little was known of their nature. Since then, rapid developments have resulted from the initial finding that imogolite is widely distributed in the Bs horizons of podzols and acid brown soils (Tait et al., 1978), and from the integration of this finding with laboratory studies on the synthesis and structure of imogolite (Farmer et al., 1977; Farmer and Fraser, 1979). In addition, progress in the last few years has led to the recognition that allophane, although non-crystalline, can exhibit a variety of structures which are not necessarily defined by bulk composition. This chapter will concentrate on these recent developments.
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Farmer, V.C., Russell, J.D. (1990). Structures and Genesis of Allophanes and Imogolite and their Distribution in Non-Volcanic Soils. In: De Boodt, M.F., Hayes, M.H.B., Herbillon, A., De Strooper, E.B.A., Tuck, J.J. (eds) Soil Colloids and Their Associations in Aggregates. NATO ASI Series, vol 214. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2611-1_8
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