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Nature of dioctahedral micas in Spanish red soils

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2018

J. M. Martin-Garcia ,
G. Delgado ,
M. Sanchez-Maranon ,
J. F. Parraga  and
R. Delgado
J. M. Martin-Garcia
Affiliation:
Departamento de Geología, Facultad de Ciencias Experimentales, Universidad de Jaén, Paraje Las Lagunillas, 23071, Jaén, Spain
G. Delgado
Affiliation:
Departamento de Edafología y Química Agrícola, Facultad de Farmacía, Universidad de Granada, Campus Cartuja, 18071, Granada, Spain
M. Sanchez-Maranon
Affiliation:
Departamento de Edafología y Química Agrícola, Universidad de Almería, 04120, Almería, Spain
J. F. Parraga
Affiliation:
Departamento de Edafología y Química Agrícola, Facultad de Farmacía, Universidad de Granada, Campus Cartuja, 18071, Granada, Spain
R. Delgado
Affiliation:
Departamento de Edafología y Química Agrícola, Universidad de Almería, 04120, Almería, Spain
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Abstract

Structural formulae and other crystallochemical parameters were used to study different species of dioctahedral micas in clay and coarse gravel fractions of horizons from a red soil (Ultic Haploxeralf) in southern Spain. Mineralogical analyses using X-ray powder diffraction, and measurements of the b0 parameter revealed dioctahedral micas, illite and paragonite. Structural formulae established from electron microprobe analysis and energy dispersive X-ray analysis showed the illites to be K mica related in elemental composition and structure to muscovite and phengite. The paragonites were found to be closer to ideal mica. Structural formulae for Na-K dioctahedral micas were obtained with crystallochemical characteristics intermediate between those of Na micas and K micas. The possibilty of these micas representing individual mineral phases or intergrowths of Na and K micas is discussed. In the soil profile, micas from the Bt horizon showed the largest crystallochemical changes induced by pedogenesis.

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Clay Minerals , Volume 32 , Issue 1 , March 1997 , pp. 107 - 121
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1997

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