MINERALOGY OF THE CLAY FRACTION OF SOME SOILS IN THE WESTERN COASTAL LITTORAL OF EGYPT

Document Type : Original Article

Author

• M. E. Abdel-Rahman

Department of Soil Chemistry and Physics, Desert Research Center, El-Matareya, Cairo, Egypt

Keywords

• clay minerals
• feldspars
• illite
• kaolinite
• montmorillonite
• palygorskite
• vermiculite