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Some Hydrous Micas in South African Clays and Shales

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

H. Heystek
H. Heystek*
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South African Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa
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At the 4th International Soil Science Congress held in Amsterdam (1950) a special meeting discussed the nomenclature of clay minerals and suggested “hydrous mica” as a general term for those clay minerals that are neither well crystallised micas nor pure expanding minerals.

In the past various names have been used for the hydrous micas. As early as 1912, Galpin, and later, in 1920, Bayley, introduced the terms “hydro-mica” and “hydrous mica” respectively, to designate a micaceous clay mineral. Since then, reports have been made of the presence in soils of a potash-bearing clay mineral (Wherry et al., 1929), and in clays of a mica-like clay mineral (glimmerartige Tonmineralien) (Endell et al., 1935), and a sericite-like mineral (Grim, 1935). In 1937 Grim et al., for the first time proposed the term “illite” as a “general term for the clay mineral constitutents of argillaceous sediments belonging to the mica group.” Other names include bravaisite (Ross and Hendricks) and sarospatite (Maegdefrau and Hofmann, 1937), but the validity of these as specific minerals is questionable since they have been found to exist as mixtures of hydrous micas and montmorillonoids (Bradley, 1945; Brindley, 1951).

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Clays and Clay Minerals (National Conference on Clays and Clay Minerals) , Volume 3 , February 1954 , pp. 337 - 355
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Copyright © The Clay Minerals Society 1954

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