Abstract
Throughout the book thus far one can find the crystallo-chemical descriptions of clay minerals, their specific chemical properties as well as the probable reasons for their formation and lack of crystal size development. The transformation of unstable high temperature minerals into clays by the interaction of meteoric water and rock silicate minerals producing fine-grained crystallites is given in detail. These are the classical accounts of clay mineral formation under the influence of surface water-rock interaction. They depend essentially on the ratio of water to rock or altering mineral during the reaction period. Clay minerals formed at the rock interface are present in the saprock and eventually saprolite zone, and they are eventually submitted to the direct interaction of meteoric water at the soil surface in the context of plant/silicate interaction chemistry. Attention has been drawn to the importance of plants on clay mineral stabilities and occurrences.
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