Mechanism of palygorskite formation in the red clay formation on the chinese loess plateau, northwest China

Geoderma

Volumn 192, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 39-49

  Xie, Qiaoqin ^a   Chen, Tianhu ^a   Zhou, Hui ^a   Xu, Xiaochun ^a   Xu, Huifang ^b   Ji, Junfeng ^c   Lu, Huayu ^c   Balsam, William ^d  

^a HEFEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemical precipitation; Chinese Loess Plateau; Palygorskite; Rearrangement of smectite structure; Red Clay Formation; Smectite transformation

Indexed keywords

ALKALINITY; DEPOSITION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IONS; KAOLINITE; LANDFORMS; MAGNESIUM; MAGNESIUM PRINTING PLATES; METAL IONS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEDIMENTS; SOIL MOISTURE; SOILS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WEATHERING; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

CHEMICAL PRECIPITATION; CHINESE LOESS PLATEAU; PALYGORSKITES; RED CLAY; SMECTITES;

CLAY MINERALS;

ARID ENVIRONMENT; AUTHIGENESIS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CRYSTALLIZATION; DISSOLUTION; DOLOMITE; EVAPORATION; PALYGORSKITE; PH; RED SOIL; SMECTITE; TRANSFORMATION;

CHINA; LOESS PLATEAU;

EID: 84869147821     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2012.07.021     Document Type: Article

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