Geology of Clays

Course content

Soil clays in the geochemical cycle. A brief review of silicate hydrolysis. Geology of clays in continental sediments and marine sediment from point of view of environmental factors. Comparison of ancient and modern clay deposits. Clay mineral genesis by inheritance and transformation, neoformation, and diagenesis. Brief consideration of clay mineral synthesis, hydrothermal origin and low grade metamorphism of layer silicates.