abstract mineral weathering is a major source of most essential nutrients including potassium. it is well known that potassium plays an important role in improving the quality of agricultural products and micaceous minerals, as the major source of potassium, are abundant in iranian soils. no information is available on the role of micaceous minerals in supplying k to barley as the second major ...

abstract heated micaceous minerals under different commercial brand names (including vermiculite) are used as culture medium in greenhouses. heating minerals affects the release of elements, such as potassium, by changing their structure. the present study, investigates the ability of alfalfa, as one of the most important fodder around the world, to take up the non-exchangeable and structural p...

Interactions between supercritical (sc) CO2 and minerals are important when CO2 is injected into geologic formations for storage and as working fluids for enhanced oil recovery, hydraulic fracturing, and geothermal energy extraction. It has previously been shown that at the elevated pressures and temperatures of the deep subsurface, scCO2 alters smectites (typical swelling phyllosilicates). How...

Abiotic nitrogen reduction (ANR) in hydrothermal systems has been long considered as the most likely mechanism to transform N2, the dominant N species on the pre-life Earth’s surface, into NH4+, an essential compound for abiotic synthesis of large organic molecules facilitating the emergence of life in the early oceans [1]. Mineral-induced ANR process has been demonstrated by laboratory experim...

The TCG consists of a basal pebble-conglomerate with distinctive black chert clasts overlain by sandstones interlayered with white-purple volcanic ash. All lithologies have experience an episode of post-deposition silicification. Petrographic analysis reveals sandstones are compositionally mature with high abundances of quartz and minor amounts of feldspar and muscovite or biotite mica. Most gr...

The full elastic tensors of the sheet silicates muscovite, illite-smectite, kaolinite, dickite, and nacrite have been derived with first-principles calculations based on density functional theory. For muscovite, there is excellent agreement between calculated properties and experimental results. The influence of cation disorder was investigated and found to be minimal. On the other hand, stacki...

During the last years, self-assembled organic nanostructures have been recognized as a proper fundament for several electrical and optical applications. In particular, phenylenes deposited on muscovite mica have turned out to be an outstanding material combination. They tend to align parallel to each other forming needlelike structures. In that way, they provide the key for macroscopic highly p...

The behaviour of 25 major and trace elements, together with mineral changes, has been examined in a deep weathering profile on the Cammenellis granite, Cornwall. The bulk chemical and mineralogical composition of the regolith shows only minor changes from the parent rock indicating a low degree of chemical weathering. However, within the regolith marked differences occur between the fine fracti...

We conducted general shear experiments on synthetic mixtures of quartz and muscovite aggregates at 800 °C 1.5 GPa with 0.1 wt% H2O added in the Griggs apparatus to investigate role content microstructural evolution rheological properties aggregates. Muscovite varied between 0, 5, 10 25% muscovite. Mechanically, sample strengths decrease an increase content. At high strains grains align sub-para...