Silica in soils: Quartz and disordered silica polymorphs

Minerals in Soil Environments

Volumn , Issue , 2018, Pages 913-974

  Drees, L Richard ^a   Wilding, Larry P ^a   Smeck, Neil E ^b   Senkayi, Abu L ^c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c 1 Dallas Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemical composition; Crystal structure; Disordered silica polymorphs; Mineral identification; Pedological studies; Quantitative determination; Quartz; Soil samples; Solubility

Indexed keywords

EID: 85101892872     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.2136/sssabookser1.2ed.c19     Document Type: Chapter

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