Here is a comprehensive and up to-do-date presentation of the origins, and properties of clay minerals at the Earths surface. The text reviews the relatively simple laws that govern the chemical or isotopic composition and the crystalline structure of clays, and then discusses their genesis and alteration. Concluding chapters show that clay minerals can form in variety of different environments: meteorites, lavas, subduction zones, among others.
- ISBN10 3540271414
- ISBN13 9783540271413
- Publish Date 1 January 2005
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Springer Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- Format eBook
- Pages 476
- Language English