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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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Extract

It is nearly a year now since we commenced the systematic investigation of our local soil clays in the North-East of Scotland by the powder method of X-ray analysis. In Aberdeenshire, one of the most wide-spread Soil Associations is the Insch Association, and this is the one I want particularly to talk about to-day. An association consists of soils derived from similar parent material, and the parent material of the Insch Association is till derived from basic igneous rock—mainly hypersthene gabbro, 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
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1947

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