smectite in a sentence
Examples
- Also of current interest is the impact of salinity on nucleation and growth of iron oxyhydroxides and on the structure of smectite clay materials.
- In contrast, beidellite is smectite with greater than 50 % tetrahedral charge originating from isomorphous substitution of Al for Si in the silica sheet.
- Both nickel-bearing talc and nickel dominant smectite occur at the type locality, Szklary, Zbkowice Zlskie County, Lower Silesia, Poland.
- These rocks contain amphibole, clay minerals such as illite, kaolinite and smectite, feldspar, plagioclase, potassium feldspar, pyroxene and quartz.
- The drying of the lake left deposits containing amphibole, illite, plagioclase feldspar, potassium feldspar, kaolinite, pyroxene, quartz and smectite.
- The neutral aluminium hydroxide sheets are found sandwiched between silicate sheets in important clay groups : the illite, kaolinite, and montmorillonite / smectite groups.
- These grains are called " glauconies " and consist of a mixture of mixed-layer clay minerals, such as smectite and glauconite mica.
- Clays in this member are rich in smectite and thus tend to swell when wet and dry to a crumbled surface that looks a bit like popcorn.
- Minerals formed by alteration processes include alunite, calcite, cristobalite, illite, jarosite, kaolinite, pyrophyllite, quartz, smectite, sulfur and tridymite.
- Analysis of soils consumed by wild birds show that they often prefer soils with high clay content, often with the smectite clay families being well-represented.