Geophysical Monograph Series, Page 117-131., 2021 Exploring the links between Large Igneous Provinces and dramatic environmental impact
An emerging consensus suggests that Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) and Silicic LIPs (SLIPs) are a significant driver of dramatic global environmental and biological changes, including mass extinctions.
Benjamin Black +4 more
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Mechanical Activation of Smectite-Based Nanocomposites for Creation of Smart Fertilizers
Applied Sciences, 2022 This research presents the mechanical creation of smart fertilizers from a mixture of smectite and urea in a 3:2 ratio by using the planetary milling technique.
Maxim Rudmin +4 more
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Chemical weathering and provenance evolution of Holocene–Recent sediments from the Western Indus Shelf, Northern Arabian Sea inferred from physical and mineralogical properties [PDF]
, 2012 We present a multi-proxy mineral record based on X-ray diffraction and diffuse reflectance spectrophotometry analysis for two cores from the western Indus Shelf in order to reconstruct changing weathering intensities, sediment transport, and provenance ...
Clift, Peter D. +5 more
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Characterization of a bentonite and its permanent aqueous suspension
Journal of the Turkish Chemical Society, Section A: Chemistry, 2020 A bentonite sample taken from Reşadiye (Tokat/Turkey) deposite was mixed with distilled water. The formed permanent aqueous suspension was separated by decantation from the flocculated solid fraction.
Fatma Eda ÖZGÜVEN +3 more
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Elucidating the crystal-chemistry of Jbel Rhassoul stevensite (Morocco) by advanced analytical techniques [PDF]
, 2008 The composition of Rhassoul clay is controversial regarding the nature of the puremineral clay fraction which is claimed to be stevensite rather than saponite.
A. Maazouz +28 more
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Exploration and characterization of local raw bentonite of a part of Garmiyan-Kurdistan/Iraq
Kuwait Journal of Science, 2023 Samples from Garmiyan located in Kurdistan region of Iraq were collected and investigated concerning their physical, chemical, and mineralogical properties.
Dler M.S. Shwan +3 more
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Tikrit Journal of Pure Science, 2023 The smectite mineral of bentonite deposits within Digma (Maastrichtian) and Akashat (Danian) formations in the western desert of Iraq distinguished by hydrophilic properties, and the presence of Ca and sometimes Na in the interlayer space.
Ahid Younis Al-Mallah +1 more
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Weathering microenvironments on feldspar surfaces: implications for understanding fluid-mineral reactions in soils [PDF]
, 2008 The mechanisms by which coatings develop on weathered grain surfaces, and their potential impact on rates of fluid-mineral interaction, have been investigated by examining feldspars from a 1.1 ky old soil in the Glen Feshie chronosequence, Scottish ...
Blum +8 more
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Diagenesis of the Sedimentary Fe–Ni Deposits of Euboea: Evidence Based on Phyllosilicate Mineralogy
Materials Proceedings, 2021 A set of samples with different textures from the sedimentary Fe–Ni deposits of Central Euboea, Greece, were studied with XRD and SEM-EDS to investigate the relationships between phyllosilicates present.
Spyros Cheliotis-Chatzidimitriou +2 more
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Smectite promotes probiotic biofilm formation in the gut for cancer immunotherapy
Cell Reports, 2021 Summary: Administration of probiotics to regulate the immune system is a potential anti-tumor strategy. However, oral administration of probiotics is ineffective because of the poor inhabitation of exogenous bacteria in host intestines.
Congwei Han +11 more
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