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EXPANSIVE CLAY [1 record]

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Record 1 1991-02-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Soil Science
  • Petrography
DEF

Clay that is capable of absorbing large qualities of water, thus increasing greatly in volume ... It shrinks and cracks on drying.

OBS

The term "expansive clay" was found in the Decade of North American Geology, Volume 1, Chapter 12.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Science du sol
  • Pétrographie
CONT

Les argiles «gonflantes» donnent une meilleure structure que les argiles non gonflantes, illite ou kaolinite.

Spanish

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