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Particle Shape versus Coherent Scattering Domain of Illite/Smectite: Evidence from HRTEM of Dolná Ves Clays

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2024

Vladimír Šucha ,
Jan Środoń ,
Francoise Elsass  and
William J. McHardy
Vladimír Šucha
Affiliation:
Department of Geology of Mineral Deposits, Comenius University, Mlynská dolina G, 842-15 Bratislava, Slovakia
Jan Środoń
Affiliation:
Institute of Geological Sciences PAN, Senacka 1, 31-002 Kraków, Poland
Francoise Elsass
Affiliation:
Station de Science du Sol INRA, Route de St-Cyr, 78000 Versailles, France
William J. McHardy
Affiliation:
The Macaulay Land Use Research Institute, Craigiebuckler, Aberdeen AB92QJ, UK
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Abstract

Fundamental particle thickness measurements of Dolná Ves hydrothermal illite/smectite (I/S) samples confirmed earlier findings regarding the content of fixed cations in illite interlayers (ca. 0.9/O10(OH)2). The distributions of fundamental particles and mixed-layer crystals of a given sample are internally consistent. In samples dominated by bilayer fundamental particles, mixed-layer crystals most often contain even numbers of layers. The expandabilities measured by XRD are much higher than so-called minimum expandabilities obtained from HRTEM measurements. This discrepancy is explained by assuming that the coherent scattering domains of Dolná Ves clays do not correspond to natural mixedlayer crystals but are thicker, probably due to parallel association of crystals on the oriented XRD slide. This tendency to produce intercrystal contacts is probably related to the unusually large ab dimensions of crystals of Dolná Ves clays.

Keywords

Coherent scattering domainFundamental particleHRTEMIllite/SmectiteMixed-layer crystal
Type
Research Article
Information
Clays and Clay Minerals , Volume 44 , Issue 5 , October 1996 , pp. 665 - 671
Copyright
Copyright © 1996, The Clay Minerals Society

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