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QUANTITATIVELY, clay minerals are usually the most important components of those fractions of deep-sea sediments which are smaller than 2 µm. There are specific patterns in the distributions of the principal groups of clay minerals in both deep-sea sediments1 and in aeolian dusts from the overlying marine atmosphere2, which have been used to evaluate the origin of the clays. It is considered1–3 that the clay minerals kaolinite, illite and chlorite are largely detrital in origin and are transported to the oceans from the continents.
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CHESTER, R., STONER, J. & JOHNSON, L. Montmorillonite in surface detritus. Nature 249, 335–336 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1038/249335a0
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