Environmental characteristics of clay and clay based minerals

• Main Authors: Aboudi Mana, Suzanne Christine, Mohd Hanafiah, Marlia, Khan Chowdhury, Ahmed Jalal
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Taylor & Francis Online 2017
• Subjects: QL Zoology
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/59782/1/4.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/59782/; http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/24749508.2017.1361128

Clay is an inherently occurring material constituted with fined-grained mineral. The minerals are generally less than 2 microns and occur to be plastic in water content which solidify when dried. In the earth surface, clay represents the most available mineral and forms rocks known as shale and is t...