Vermiculite in Some Japanese Soils
Open Access
- 1 January 1963
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Soil Science and Plant Nutrition
- Vol. 9 (1), 18-27
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00380768.1963.10431022
Abstract
Since Gruner's pioneer work in 19341), vermiculite has been attracting the attention of mineralogists and soil scientists with much interest, probably because of its unique behaviour on cation exchange and of a component common in most soils derived from various parent rocks. A number of papers thereafter dealt with the mineral, revealing its properties, diagenesis, and distribution in soils. However, as information has been accumulated on vermiculite, especially on clay vermiculite, it became evident that the difference between vermiculite and montmorillonite is due simply to the difference in layer charge and that the division is essentially an arbitrary one2). Walker suggested that the Mg plus glycerol test would be the only one which appeared to be universaIlY valid in the identification of vermiculite, and that although the K test was still of value as an aid in the differentiation, it could no longer be reo commended as of universal validity. In recent years, several workers4-12) indicated that interlayer materials, especially Al-hydroxyls, prevented vermiculite from contracting to 10 Å in the K test and prevented montmorillonite from expanding to 18 Å in the Mg-glycerol test. This suggests that in the light of new evidences the 14 Å mineral hitherto believed as vermiculite, chlorite, or montmorillonite by the classical test should be reexamined after removal of interlayer materials.Keywords
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