Physical and chemical properties of bentonite deposits of Milos Island, Greece

Transactions of the Institutions of Mining and Metallurgy, Section B: Applied Earth Science

Volumn 105, Issue SEPT/DEC, 1996, Pages

  Christidis, George E ^a   Scott, Peter W ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

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