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Fibrous clay mineral collapse produced by beam damage of carbon-coated samples during scanning electron microscopy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2018

K. Purvis*
Affiliation:
Postgraduate Research Institute for Sedimentology, Reading University, Whiteknights, Reading RG6 2AB, UK

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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1991

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