Mechanical Activation of Smectite-Based Nanocomposites for Creation of Smart Fertilizers
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]
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
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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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
wiley +1 more source
Exploration and characterization of local raw bentonite of a part of Garmiyan-Kurdistan/Iraq
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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Weathering of the Ethiopian volcanic province: a new weathering index to characterize and compare soils [PDF]
© Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston 2015.Soil formation occurs through numerous physical and chemical weathering processes acting to alter the parent rock on the Earths surface.
Baxter, PJ +6 more
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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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Elucidating the crystal-chemistry of Jbel Rhassoul stevensite (Morocco) by advanced analytical techniques [PDF]
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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Clay mineralogy, chemistry, and diagenesis of late devonian K-bentonite occurrences in northwestern Turkey [PDF]
Thin beds of tephra (K-bentonites) formed by the diagenesis of volcanic ash are exposed within the limestone-dolomitic limestone successions of the Yilanli formation at Zonguldak and Bartin in northwestern Turkey.
Bozkaya, Ömer +5 more
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Diagenesis of the Sedimentary Fe–Ni Deposits of Euboea: Evidence Based on Phyllosilicate Mineralogy
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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