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In geological terms, the term “clay” is ambiguous and has multiple meanings: a group of fine grained minerals i.e., the clay minerals; a particle size (smaller than silt); and a type of rock i.e., a sedimentary deposit of fine-grained material usually composed largely of clay minerals (Patterson and Murray, 1983; Bates and Jackson, 1987). Clay, one of the leading minerals, is a widely distributed, abundant mineral resource of major industrial importance for an enormous variety of uses (Ampian, 1985).
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Mukherjee, S. (2013). Internal Structures of Clay Minerals. In: The Science of Clays. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6683-9_3
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