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The mineralogy of some Aberdeenshire soil clays

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

G. F. Walker
G. F. Walker*
Affiliation:
Macaulay Institute for Soil Research, Aberdeen
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It is nearly a year now since we commenced the systematic investigation ofour local soil clays in the North-East of Scotland by the powder method ofX-ray analysis. In Aberdeenshire, one of the most wide-spread SoilAssociations is the Insch Association, and this is the one I wantparticularly to talk about to-day. An association consists of soils derivedfrom similar parent material, and the parent material of the InschAssociation is till derived from basic igneous rock—mainly hypersthenegabbro, but sometimes with olivine also present.

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Research Article
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Clay Minerals Bulletin , Volume 0 , Issue 1 , October 1947 , pp. 5 - 8
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1947

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