Calcareous volcanic ashes (pumice–tuffs) occur among Ordovician rocks in Snowdonia, North Wales. The clays of these rocks and of the ecologically important soils derived from them are found to be almost mono-mineralic and to consist of chlorites. Chemical, differential thermal and X-ray analyses are given and discussed with particular reference to a clay-size chlorite from weathered pumice–tuff. There is no evidence for pedogenetic clay mineral transformations in the range of soils studied.
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