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 conc

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Here is a comprehensive and up to-do-date presentation of the origins, and properties of clay minerals at the Earth ́s surface. The text reviews the relatively