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Clay Minerals; December 2000; v. 35; no. 5; p. 827-840
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Research Paper

Formation of gibbsite in the presence of 2:1 minerals: an example from Ultisols of northeast India

T. BHATTACHARYYA*, D. K. PAL and P. SRIVASTAVA

Division of Soil Resource Studies, National Bureau of Soil Survey & Land Use Planning, Amravati Road, Nagpur 440 010, India

* E-mail: tapas{at}nbsslup.mah.nic.in

(Received 23 December 1998; revised 21 February 2000)

There are two different views regarding the genesis of gibbsite in tropical acid soils: (1) direct weathering of primary Al-silicate minerals; and (2) transformation through clay mineral intermediates. We investigated the genesis of gibbsite in two representative Ultisols from northeastern India. Gibbsite in these Ultisols appears to be the remnant of earlier weathering products of aluminosilicate minerals formed in a neutral to alkaline pedochemical environment. The mere presence of gibbsite in these soils, therefore, does not indicate their advanced stage of weathering. The formation of typically rod-shaped and well-crystallized gibbsite in both the coarse and fine soil fractions in the presence of large amounts of 2:1 minerals indicates that the anti-gibbsite hypothesis may not be tenable in these tropical acid soils. A schematic model for the formation of gibbsite and kaolin in Ultisols is proposed.

KEYWORDS: gibbsite, Ultisol, acid soil, weathering, India




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