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Author : B. W. Avery
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Mineralogy of Clayey Soils in Relation to Soil Classification written by B. W. Avery and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : G. Jock Churchman
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 0429532245
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)
Download or read book Soil Clays written by G. Jock Churchman and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-06-10 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the human population grows from seven billion toward an inevitable nine or 10 billion, the demands on the limited supply of soils will grow and intensify. Soils are essential for the sustenance of almost all plants and animals, including humans, but soils are virtually infinitely variable. Clays are the most reactive and interactive inorganic compounds in soils. Clays in soils often differ from pure clay minerals of geological origin. They provide a template for most of the reactive organic matter in soils. They directly affect plant nutrients, soil temperature and pH, aggregate sizes and strength, porosity and water-holding capacities. This book aims to help improve predictions of important properties of soils through a modern understanding of their highly reactive clay minerals as they are formed and occur in soils worldwide. It examines how clays occur in soils and the role of soil clays in disparate applications including plant nutrition, soil structure, and water-holding capacity, soil quality, soil shrinkage and swelling, carbon sequestration, pollution control and remediation, medicine, forensic investigation, and deciphering human and environmental histories. Features: Provides information on the conditions that lead to the formation of clay minerals in soils Distinguishes soil clays and types of clay minerals Describes clay mineral structures and their origins Describes occurrences and associations of clays in soil Details roles of clays in applications of soils Heavily illustrated with photos, diagrams, and electron micrographs Includes user-friendly description of a new method of identification To know soil clays is to enable their use toward achieving improvements in the management of soils for enhancing their performance in one or more of their three main functions of enabling plant growth, regulating water flow to plants, and buffering environmental changes. This book provides an easily-read and extensively-illustrated description of the nature, formation, identification, occurrence and associations, measurement, reactivities, and applications of clays in soils.
Author : Bruce Velde
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3662126486
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (621 download)
Download or read book Origin and Mineralogy of Clays written by Bruce Velde and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Origin and Mineralogy of Clays, the first of two volumes, lays the groundwork for a thorough study of clays in the environment. The second volume will deal with environmental interaction. Going from soils to sediments to diagenesis and hydrothermal alteration, the book covers the whole spectrum of clays. The chapters on surface environments are of great relevance in regard to environmental problems in soils, rivers and lake-ocean situations, showing the greatest interaction between living species and the chemicals in their habitat. The book is of interest to scientists and students working on environmental issues.
Author : Bruce B. Velde
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540756345
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (47 download)
Download or read book The Origin of Clay Minerals in Soils and Weathered Rocks written by Bruce B. Velde and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-07-18 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of huge relevance in a number of fields, this is a survey of the different processes of soil clay mineral formation and the consequences of these processes concerning the soil ecosystem, especially plant and mineral. Two independent systems form soil materials. The first is the interaction of rocks and water, unstable minerals adjusting to surface conditions. The second is the interaction of the biosphere with clays in the upper parts of alteration profiles.
Author : Velde
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401123683
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Introduction to Clay Minerals written by Velde and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction to Clay Minerals is designed to give a detailed, concise and clear introduction to clay mineralogy. Using the information presented here, one should be able to understand clays and their mineralogy, their uses and importance in modern life.
Author : Spoorthi Reballi
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Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (892 download)
Download or read book A Refined Approach to Identifying and Quantifying Clay and Non-clay Minerals in Expansive Soils written by Spoorthi Reballi and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expansive soils exhibit substantial swelling and shrinkage due to moisture content fluctuations. Predicting this volume change behavior of expansive soils has been a major challenge to the engineers in the past few years. One of the factors which play a vital role in understanding the behavior of the expansive soils is mineralogy. Chittoori (2008) had developed three models to quantify the clay minerals using Microsoft Excel Solver, Regression Equations and Artificial Neural networks. The previous models have only considered clay fraction, i.e. montmorillonite, kaolinite and illite. But the non-clay mineral contents like quartz and feldspar were not taken into consideration. Hence the main objective of this research is to include the quantification of both non-clay and clay minerals present in the soil. Also, the inclusion of potassium from feldspar and how it impacts clay mineralogy are studied. In order to accomplish this research objective, seventeen natural soils samples were taken with different mineralogical contents. Basic soil classification tests like hydrometer, wet sieve analysis were performed on these soils to identify the type of soil and for the separation of silt and clay fraction along with greater than 75 microns samples. Mineralogy studies on the test soils include Cation exchange capacity (CEC), Specific Surface Area (SSA) and Total Potassium (TP). The results from these tests were analyzed using the regression model developed by Chittoori (2008) and also by the modified method which identifies the mineral feldspar and quartz. Results from both the methods were compared and the percent amount of minerals, kaolinite and illite has shown considerable change in the predicted percentages. This research paves way for future research studies to increase the accuracy of the mineral quantification process by quantifying the percentages of both the clay and non-clay minerals present in the soils, which in turn will provide better understanding of the expansive behavior of natural soils.
Author : James L. Eades
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)
Download or read book A Study of the Mineralogy of Clays in Soils as a Product of the Parent Material written by James L. Eades and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. A. Kittrick
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Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Mineral Classification of Soils written by J. A. Kittrick and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Problems with identifying the mineralogy control section in soil taxonomy; Whole soil mineralogy: criteria for mineralogical families in soil taxonomy; Problems associated with the U.S. system of soil taxonomy: mineralogy classes in arid regions; Family mineralogy of soils with free carbonetes and gypsum; Problems associated with the U.S. system of soil taxonomy; mineralogy classes in the glaciated humid region; Problems associated with soil taxonomy mineralogy classes in the nonglaciated humid region; Family criteria for soils dominated by amorphous and poorly crystalline materials; Problems associated with soil taxonomy mineralogy classes of tephra-influenced soils in the Pacific Northwest; Realistic modification of soil taxonomy mineralogy classes of tephra-influenced soils in the Pacific Northwest; Redefinition of the glauconitic family in soil taxonomy; Ultramafic (serpentinitic) mineralogy class; Criteria assessment for micaceous and lllitic classes in soil taxonomy; Criteria for vermiculite chloritic family classes in soil taxonomy; Mineralogy classes in soil families with low activity clays.
Author : Aravind Pedarla
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (858 download)
Download or read book SWCC and Clay Mineralogy Based Models for Realistic Simulation of Swell Behavior of Expansive Soils written by Aravind Pedarla and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Predicting the volume change behavior of expansive soils has been a major challenge to the engineers in the past few years, due to the intricate coupling effects caused by different soil composition related mineralogy and pore void distribution to unsaturated soil property related parameters toward soil swelling. Hence, the main objective of this research is to develop models for realistic simulation of expansive soil behavior by accounting for inherent composition and unsaturated soil properties. In order to accomplish this research, eight natural expansive clays have been sampled from different active expansive soil regions across the United States. Basic soil classification and mineralogy studies were performed on these soils to identify the type of expansive clays and approximate mineralogy. The swell behavior of these clays is then studied by using different testing methods on soils compacted at different initial dry density conditions. A novel 3-D swell test apparatus was introduced to measure the volumetric strains of these soils under confining pressures. These test results are utilized for the development and validation of swell prediction models. Different soil composition parameters like clay mineralogy, soil-suction relationship and pore distribution are studied using advanced techniques. These techniques include the determination of clay mineralogy from chemical properties of soil, soil water relationship (i.e. soil water characteristic curve) from pressure plate and filter paper techniques and pore distribution studies from mercury intrusion porosimetry technique and X-ray computed tomography tests. Once the soil composition parameters are determined, analysis of test results was performed to identify the variation of composition parameters with soil type. Based on the soil composition test results three soil swell prediction models have been formulated in the current research. The first model was based on diffused double layer theory of clay minerals present in the soil. The second model termed as MHC model was based on two swell governing parameters which constitutes the effects of soil matric suction, void ratio change and clay mineralogy. The final model was based on the ratio of total surface area measured from clay mineralogy and mercury intrusion porosimetry. All the models showed reliable predictions of swell movements of soils that matched well with the measured test results.
Author : Menachem Gal
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Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Mineralogical Composition of Clays in Soil Profiles of Israel written by Menachem Gal and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J.E. Gillott
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0444600493
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (446 download)
Download or read book Clay in Engineering Geology written by J.E. Gillott and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2012-12-02 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engineering geology is an interdisciplinary subject concerned with the application of geological science to engineering practice, and it is therefore important for the engineering geologist to recognize the boundary between engineering application and purely scientific enquiry. Much research in applied clay science results from imperfectly understood engineering behaviour. Engineering geology is most closely allied to the geotechnical and materials areas of civil engineering. The scope of the present book is limited to the influence of clay but because clay is almost ubiquitous in earth materials the subject still remains broad. In soil and rock, clay is the smallest size fraction, but it is that very fact which often determines its major influences on engineering behaviour.In this book the author reviews the importance of clay in engineering geology and summarizes present knowledge in this field. The plan of the book has remained unchanged since the first edition was published in 1968 but the text, diagrams and reference lists have all been extensively updated. The first 5 chapters review the classification, origin, composition, fabric and physical chemistry of clays. Behavioural aspects, covered in the following 4 chapters, include moisture interaction, strength and rheology, soil stabilization and the use of clays as materials. The final 3 chapters describe methods of analysis of clays and soils.Clay in Engineering Geology contains material drawn from a wide variety of sources and, together with its literature review and indexes, will provide much of value to geologists, mineralogists, civil and geotechnical engineers concerned with applied clay science.
Author : M.H. Repacholi
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401107270
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Clay Mineralogy: Spectroscopic and Chemical Determinative Methods written by M.H. Repacholi and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A knowledge of clay is important in many spheres of scientific endeav our, particularly in natural sciences such as geology, mineralogy and soil science, but also in more applied areas like environmental and mater ials science. Over the last two decades research into clay mineralogy has been strongly influenced by the development and application of a num ber of spectroscopic techniques which are now able to yield information about clay materials at a level of detail that previously would have seemed inconceivable. This information relates not only to the precise characterization of the individual clay components themselves, but also to the ways in which these components interact with a whole range of absorbate molecules. At present, however, the fruits of this research are to be found principally in a somewhat widely dispersed form in the scientific journals, and it was thus considered to be an appropriate time to bring together a compilation of these spectroscopic techniques in a way which would make them more accessible to the non-specialist. This is the primary aim of this book. The authors of the various chapters first describe the principles and instrumentation of the individual spectro scopic techniques, assuming a minimum of prior knowledge, and then go on to show how these methods have been usefully applied to clay mineralogy in its broadest context.
Author : C. Mizota
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Clay Mineralogy and Chemistry of Soils Formed in Volcanic Material in Diverse Climatic Regions written by C. Mizota and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J.W. Stucki
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400940076
Total Pages : 903 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Iron in Soils and Clay Minerals written by J.W. Stucki and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 903 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Probably more than any other element, iron markedly influences the chemical and physical properties of soils and sediments in the earth. Considering its transition metal status, with potential variation in electronic configuration, ionic radius, and magnetic moment, combined with its abundance and relatively large mass, little wonder that one sees its unique influence on every hand. Pre sentations at the NATO Advanced Study Institute (NATO AS!) on Iron in Soils and Clay Minerals reviewed and discussed the occurrence, behavior, and properties of Fe-bearing minerals found in soils and in the clay mineral groups kaolinite, smectite, and mica. Also discussed at the NATO AS! were the basic chemical properties of Fe, methods for separating and identifying Fe in minerals, and the role of Fe minerals in weathering and other soil-forming processes. The present publication is the reviewed and edited proceedings of that Advanced Study Institute. The sequence of chapters follows the general pattern beginning with introductory chapters which overview the general occurrence of Fe in the earth and its chemistry, both generally and in mineral environments, followed by identification and characterization methods for Fe and Fe phases in minerals. The properties and behavior of Fe oxides, Fe-bearing clay minerals, and other Fe minerals in soils are then described, and the text ends with a summary of the role of Fe in soil-forming processes. A Table of Contents and subject index are provided to assist the reader in finding specific topics within the text.
Author : Ralph Early Grim
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Clay Mineralogy written by Ralph Early Grim and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concepts of the composition of clay materials; Classification and nomenclature of the clay minerals; Structure of the clay minerals; X-ray diffraction data; Shape and size - electron micrographs; Ion exchange; Clay-water system; Dehydration, rehydration, and changes taking place on heating methods of study; Clay-mineral organic reactions; Optical properties; Miscellaneous properties; Origin and occurrence of the clay minerals.
Author : Al-Hawas Ibrahim A. M.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Clay Mineralogy and Soil Classification of Alluvial and Upland Soils Associated with Blackwater and Nottoway Rivers in Southeastern Virginia written by Al-Hawas Ibrahim A. M. and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bipin B. Mishra
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030310825
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (33 download)
Download or read book The Soils of India written by Bipin B. Mishra and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-01-13 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an overview of the diversified soil regimes in India. In addition to the historical advances in soil research and its limitations, it describes the monitoring of various soil conditions and soil uses to improve productivity. Discussing topics such as climate, geology and geomorphology, major soil types and their classification, soil mineralogy and clays, soil micromorphology, soil biogeochemistry, benchmark soils, land evaluation and land use planning, soil health and fertility and soil resilience, the book highlights the multiple uses of soils in industry, human health care, mitigation of challenges due to climate change and construction. It also presents measures for a brighter future of soil science in India, such as imposing organic farming principles toward sustainable agriculture in the context of the second green revolution besides alleviating the poverty and providing the employment opportunities among the farming communities in India.
