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High-spacing irregularly interstratified layer-silicates in the alluvial soil clays of Meerut, India

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2018

K. P. Tomar
K. P. Tomar*
Affiliation:
Division of Agricultural Physics, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi 110012, India
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Abstract

The mineralogy of the fine clay fraction (<0·2 μm) of two soil pedons (Aquic and Udic Haplustalfs) representing the wheat-sugarcane belt of the Indo-Gangetic alluvial plain was studied by X-ray diffraction, differential thermal analysis, transmission electron microscopy, and by chemical analysis. The XRD patterns are characterized by unusually high spacings which are interpreted in terms of an interstratification comprising smectite, illite and ‘chlorite’ components. The CEC data (Ca/Mg and K/NH4) also indicate the possible presence of vermiculite. A plateau bridging the 7–10 Å maxima in K-saturated specimens heated at 300°C suggests interstratification of kaolinite and smectite, although this may not be part of the above interstratification. The diffuse bands shown by Mg-glycerol-solvated Ap-horizon clays at ∼21 Å, and the increasing elimination of XRD peaks in the > 10 Å region with distance from the surface, suggests that the expanding layers have a slight tendency to segregate in Ap horizon samples and that randomization tends to increase with depth. Discrete illite and small amounts of kaolinite were also detected.

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Clay Minerals , Volume 20 , Issue 1 , March 1985 , pp. 115 - 124
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1985

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