CE467L

Geotechnical Engineering

Clay Minerals

Jean-Pierre Bardet
University of Southern California
Halloysite

Electron
photomicrograph
of a Halloysite
from Bedford,
Indiana.
Picture width is 2
m (Tovey, 1971).
Attapulgite

Electron
photomicrograph
of Attapulgite from
Attapulgis,
Georgia. Picture
width is 4.7 m
(Tovey, 1971).
Montmorillonite

Electron
photomicrograph
of a
Montmorillonite
(Bentonite) from a
Clay Spur of
Wyoming. Picture
width is 7.5 m.
(Tovey, 1971).
 Illite

Lambe (1951)
Kaolinite

Electron
photomicrograph
of well-crystallized
kaolinite from St.
Austell, Cornwell,
England. Picture
width is 17 m
(Tovey, 1971).
Kaolinite