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Roles of Clay and Oxide Minerals in Soils

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Environmental Interactions of Clays

Abstract

Soils are complex mixtures of minerals, organic matter, and water. The most active mineral constituent of soils is clay. This is because of the high surface area of the fine particles and because of the inherent structural features of certain clay minerals. Most soils contain only a few percent organic matter but a much larger amount of clay. The lack of any orderly atomic arrangement in soil organic matter prevents discussing it in an analogous way to minerals, which are predominantly crystalline constituents. Thus, this discussion will be largely devoted to the clay minerals, i.e. the minerals in the fraction 2 micrometers (μm) and less in equivalent spherical diameter.

Reprinted (with modifications) from Applied Clay Science, 5, edited by H.H. Muray, J.B. Dixon, Roles of Clays in Soils, pages 489–503, 1991, with kind permission from Elsevier Science — NL, Sara Burgerhartstraat 25, 1055 KV Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

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Dixon, J.B. (1998). Roles of Clay and Oxide Minerals in Soils. In: Parker, A., Rae, J.E. (eds) Environmental Interactions of Clays. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03651-8_3

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