Study on Genesis and Deposition of Clay Minerals
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Earth Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 June 2023) | Viewed by 3542
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Interests: clays and clay minerals; industrial minerals in general and traditional building materials; medical geology; coastal and marine geology
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Interests: authigenic clay minerals; X-ray diffraction; characterization of clay minerals; hydrothermalism; soil science; weathering
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Dear Colleagues,
Deposits of clays may have complex origins. One deposit is not like another of the same material, but integrative genetic models can produce useful patterns for exploration purposes. Clays occur in many different geological environments: weathering crusts and soils, continental and marine sediments, volcanic deposits, geothermal fields, wallrock alteration produced by the intrusion of plutonic rocks and hydrothermal fluids, and very low-grade metamorphic rocks. Clay formation and evolution are distinctive events in the geological history of a basin. The source area, transport, depositional environment of clays, and transformation and diagenetic changes are fundamental for the analysis of sedimentary basins.
Prof. Dr. Fernando Rocha
Prof. Dr. André Sampaio Mexias
Guest Editors
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