CLAY MINERALS

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CLAY MINERALS CD. Barton United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Aiken, South Carolina, U.S.A. A.D. Karathanasis University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, U.S.A.

INTRODUCTION Clay minerals refers to a group of hydrous aluminosilicates that predominate the clay-sized (