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Chapter 3. Technological and compositional requirements of clay materials for ceramic tiles
Chapter 4. Activation of Clays for environmental uses-Can we improve on nature, and can it pay?
Part II. Clays in Geology
Chapter 5. Na-bentonites and K-bentonites from Argentina: composition, origin and age
Chapter 6. Clay mineralogy and construction problems in volcanic soils near Mount St. Helens: Sediment Retention Structure, southwestern Washington, USA
Chapter 7. Neoformed mineral parageneses in acid weathering systems: sedimentary vs. volcanic environments
Chapter 8. Geochemical study of clay materials in Fornos de Algodres Region (Central Portugal) in an archaeometric view
Chapter 9. Fibrous clay minerals as lithostratigraphic markers in a Tertiary continental deposit (Malpica do Tejo, Portugal)
Chapter 10. Cr-bearing chlorites in low-grade metapelites of the Puncoviscana Formation (Neoproterozoic), Northwestern Argentina
Chapter 11. Two types of hydrothermal clay deposits in the south-east area of Tandilia, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
Chapter 12. Occurrence of bentonites in Southern South America
Chapter 13. Clay mineralogy, illite crystallinity and polytypes in the Campana Mahuida Porphyry Cu Deposit, Neuquén, Argentina
Chapter 14. A neoformed kaolinitic mineral in the Upper Pleistocene of northeastern Argentina
Chapter 15. Surface microtopography of pyrophillite from different modes of occurrence
Chapter 16. Geochemistry of the hydrothermal kaolins in the SE area of Los Menucos. Prov. of Río Negro, Argentina
Chapter 17. Chlorite-smectite geothermometry of two wells from the Copahue Geothermal Field, Argentina
Chapter 18. Clay Mineral diagenesis of a Pleistocene volcanogenic sequence, Mexican Basin
Chapter 19. Analysis of colour rhythmites in sensitive marine clays (Leda Clay) from Eastern Canada
Chapter 20. Berthierine formation in spotted slates
Chapter 21. The application of clay mineralogical analysis to the reconstruction of a Greek Bronze Age coastal environment
Chapter 22. Facies distribution and pedogenetic evolution of clayey deposits in Caxambu Hill, Quadrilátero Ferrífero, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Chapter 23. The effect of deformation on illite crytallite sizes
Part III. Soil Mineralogy
Chapter 24. X-Ray analysis of clay and silt fractions of soils developed in allochthonous materials of Aeolian (loess) and alluvial origin in the southwestern Pampa, Argentina
Chapter 25. Coastal dune soils in Oregon, USA, forming allophane, imogolite and gibbsite
Chapter 26. Deep and actively forming illuvial clay in the regolith and on bedrock
Chapter 27. Pedogenic mineral formation as environmental indicator in a paleosol sequence from the Miocene to the Holocene at Mergelstetten, Southwest-Germany
Chapter 28. Experiences with selective extraction procedures for iron oxides
Chapter 29. Neoformed halloysite in podzols developed on the Bärhalde granite. Southern Black Forest, Germany
Part IV. Applied Clay Science
Chapter 30. Clay mineralogy of raw materials and ancient pottery from archaeological sites in the Ambato valley, Catamarca, Argentina
Chapter 31. Transformation of chlorinated aliphatic compounds by ferruginous smectite
Chapter 32. Porous alumina-nano-clay functionally gradient membrane structures
Chapter 33. Effect of chemical modification of stilbite zeolite on removing lead from wastewaters
Chapter 34. Pore lining chlorites in hydrocarbon reservoirs: structure and composition related to their origin
Chapter 35. Mechanochemical activation of kaolinite surfaces
Chapter 36. The role of hydrophobic solids in the separation and upgrading of bitumen from Athabasca oil sands
Chapter 37. The physico-chemical and rheological characterizations of two industrial bentonites
Chapter 38. Application of bentonite and organoclay in stabilization/solidification of tannery waste
Chapter 39. Plasticity of bricks clays: comparison of several empirical tests and correlation with mineralogical composition and particle size distribution
Chapter 40. Adsorption of phenol by organo-clays
Chapter 41. Portuguese clays used in Geomedicine: study of their relevant properties
Chapter 42. Industrial clays of Brazil: a review
Chapter 43. White bentonite from Patagonia, Río Negro Province, Argentina
Chapter 44. Corrensite, a stratigraphic marker in the Quintuco Formation, Neuquén Basin, West-Central Argentina, and Mississipian carbonates of the Illinois Basin, Illinois, USA
Chapter 45. Study of the structural order degree of Brazilian kaolinites by X-ray diffraction
Chapter 46. Geology and evaluation of the Yarmouth Kaolin Deposit, Nova Scotia, Canada
Chapter 47. Demonstration of the existence of subcritical growth cracks in sintered kaolin
Chapter 48. Geology and physical properties of palygorskite from Central China and Southeastern United States
Part V. Mineral Structure and Investigational Methods
Chapter 49. Distribution and characterization of forms of Fe and Al in particle-size fractions of an Entic Haplustoll by selective dissolution techniques. X-ray powder diffraction and Mössbauer spectroscopy
Chapter 50. Thermal transformation of synthetic bayerite and nordstrandite as studied by electron-optical methods
Chapter 51. Proton binding at clay surfaces in aqueous media
Chapter 52. Hydrothermal transformation of kaolinite into 2:1 expandible minerals
Chapter 53. Synthesis and characterization of novel inorganic/ organic hybrid materials prepared from layered double hydroxides
Chapter 54. EPR characterisation of iron in various clay minerals: montmorillonites and layered double hydroxides
Chapter 55. Synchrotron x-ray study of hydration dynamics in the synthetic swelling clay Na-fluorohectorite
Chapter 56. Experimental weathering of biotite, muscovite and vermiculite: a Mössbauer spectroscopy study
Chapter 57. Syntheses of smectite-analogue/coumarin composites
Chapter 58. Thermogravimetric analysis-mass spectrometry (TGA-MS) of hydrotalcites containing CO32-, NO3-, Cl-, SO42- or ClO4-
Chapter 59. Spectroscopic analysis and X-ray diffraction of zinnwaldite
Chapter 60. Clay mineralogy and tensile strength of different soils from the southwestern Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
Chapter 61. Molecular and particulate organisation in dye-clay films prepared by the Langmuir-Blodgett method
Chapter 62. Si-Al-Mg and Si-Al-Zn montmorillonite: synthesis and characterization by EXAFS and quantitative 27Al MAS-MNR
Chapter 63. Electron optical study of star shaped gibbsite microcrystals
Chapter 64. A new method for the preparation of microcrystals of boehmite
Chapter 65. Studies of Synthetic Kaolinites Containing Copper and Zinc
Chapter 66. Adsorption of quinoline on Na-sepiolite and Na-palygorskite
Chapter 67. Controlled rate thermal analysis of formamide intercalated kaolinites
Chapter 68. Cathodoluminescence of kaolin group minerals
Chapter 69. FT-IR photoacoustic spectroscopy of kaolinite and gibbsite surfaces
Chapter 70. FT-Raman spectroscopy and SEM of gibbsite, bayerite, boehmite and diaspore in relation to the characterization of bauxite
Part VI. Teaching Clay Mineralogy
Chapter 71. Evaluation of colloidal properties using clay minerals: experiments for undergraduate and introductory chemistry students
Chapter 72. Three simple experiments to visually demonstrate the impact of clay minerals on the behavior of organic pollutants in soils
Chapter 73. Microbes associated with clay minerals – Formation of bio-halloysite
Part VII. 3ed International Symposium on Activated Clays (ISAC)
Chapter 74. Acid activation and bleaching capacity of bentonites from the Troodos ophiolite, Cyprus
Chapter 75. Synthesis and characterization of copper-loaded Titania pillared clays
Chapter 76. Synthesis and characterization of SiO2 – Cr2O3 pillared montmorillonites
Chapter 77. Castor, cottonseed, and soybean oil bleaching by activated bentonites
Chapter 78. OH-Al complexes on kaolinite surface and their effect on suspension properties
Chapter 79. Remotion of chromium from water by treated altered-tuffaceous materials
Chapter 80. Clay iron oxide magnetic composites for the adsorptions of contaminants in water
Chapter 81. Thermal decomposition of layered Co-Al hydrotalcite: an in situ study
Chapter 82. Some structural properties of an Al-PILC influenced by grinding the starting montmorillonitic clay
Chapter 83. Synthesis and characterization of pillared clays from Argentinean bentonites
Chapter 84. Influence of the smectite type on the basal spacing after polyhydroxy-aluminum pillaring in some Brazilian and Argentinian clays