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Clay minerals are the fine-grained part of geology. Clays were initially defined as consisting of grains less than 2 μm in diameter, beyond the limit of microscopic resolution. This was a definition of the nineteenth century, which had only microscopic means of investigation.
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© 1992 B. Velde
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Velde, B. (1992). The clay perspective. In: Introduction to Clay Minerals. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2368-6_1
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