Quantitative Clay Mineralogy of Several Louisiana Soils

A method was developed to simplify the approach to obtaining a better quantitative representation (QR) of complex clay mineral assemblages by XRD analysis. The method has eight steps: 1) preparation of samples with preferred orientation; 2) qualitative identification of phases; 3) peak decomposition...

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Main Author: Forsman, Johan
Other Authors: Ray Ferrell
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: LSU 2005
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Online Access:http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-03162005-092843/