Randomly interstratified illite-vermiculite from weathering of illite in red earth sediments in Xuancheng, southeastern China

Geoderma

Volumn 214-215, Issue , 2014, Pages 42-49

  Hong, Hanlie ^a   Churchman, Gordon Jock ^b   Yin, Ke ^a   Li, Rongbiao ^a   Li, Zhaohui ^a,c  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PARKSIDE   (United States)

Author keywords

Clay minerals; Mixed layer illite vermiculite (I V); Palaeoclimate; Pedogenesis; Red earth

Indexed keywords

FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRA REDS; INCOMPLETE TRANSFORMATION; MAXIMUM INTENSITIES; METASTABLE INTERMEDIATE; MIXED-LAYER ILLITE-VERMICULITE (I/V); PALAEOCLIMATE; PEDOGENESIS; RED EARTH;

CALCIUM; ETHYLENE GLYCOL; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; IRON COMPOUNDS; POSITIVE IONS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

CLAY MINERALS;

ALLUVIAL FAN; CHLORITE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; FTIR SPECTROSCOPY; ILLITE; MIXED LAYER; PALEOCLIMATE; PEDOGENESIS; QUATERNARY; RED SOIL; SUBTROPICAL REGION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TROPICAL REGION; VERMICULITE; WEATHERING; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

ANHUI; CHINA; XUANCHENG;

EID: 84888205039     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2013.10.004     Document Type: Article

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