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Throughout the book thus far one can find the crystallo-chemical descriptions of clay minerals, their specific chemical properties as well as the probable reasons for their formation and lack of crystal size development. The transformation of unstable high temperature minerals into clays by the interaction of meteoric water and rock silicate minerals producing fine-grained crystallites is given in detail. These are the classical accounts of clay mineral formation under the influence of surface water-rock interaction. They depend essentially on the ratio of water to rock or altering mineral during the reaction period.
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Velde, B., Meunier, A. (2008). The Place of Clay Mineral Species in Soils and Alterites. In: The Origin of Clay Minerals in Soils and Weathered Rocks. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75634-7_9
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