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Kaolinite is a soft, earthy, usually white, mineral (dioctahedral phyllosilicate clay), produced by the chemical weathering of aluminium silicate minerals like feldspar. It has a low shrink–swell capacity and a low cation-exchange capacity (1–15 meq/100 g).
White Clay Hundred, an unincorporated subdivision of New Castle, Delaware; White Clay Creek, a tributary of the Christina River, in southern Pennsylvania and northern Delaware; Bangladesh. White clay of Bijoypur, a significant mineral resource located in the Bijoypur area of Durgapur Upazila in the Netrokona district of Bangladesh.
Whiteclay (Lakota: Makȟásaŋ; [4] "whiteish or yellowish clay") is a census-designated place in Sheridan County, Nebraska, United States.The population was 10 at the 2010 census.
Clay is a type of fine-grained natural soil material containing clay minerals [1] (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolinite, Al 2 Si 2 O 5 4). Most pure clay minerals are white or light-coloured, but natural clays show a variety of colours from impurities, such as a reddish or brownish colour from small amounts of iron oxide. [2] [3]
White Clay Creek is an 18.5-mile-long (29.8 km) [2] tributary of the Christina River in southern Pennsylvania and northern Delaware in the United States. It is renowned for its scenic character and is largely federally protected.
In 1882, at the urging of Valentine McGillycuddy—the US Indian Agent at the Pine President Agency—President Chester A. Arthur issued an executive order establishing the White Clay Extension, an area of land in Nebraska extending 5 miles (8.0 km) south of the reservation's border and 10 miles (16 km) wide approximately perpendicular to the ...
The name used by the Gros Ventre, ʔɔʔɔɔ̋ɔ́niinénnɔh means "White Clay People". [6] It has a variety of transliterations, including A'aninin, Aaniiih, Haaninin, [6] Aainen, Aa'ninena, and Aaninena. [4] The French used the term Gros Ventre, which was mistakenly interpreted from sign language. [6]
White Clay Creek State Park is a Delaware state park along White Clay Creek on 3,559 acres (1,440 ha) in New Castle County, near Newark, Delaware in the United States.North of the park is Pennsylvania's White Clay Creek Preserve, and the two were originally operated as bi-state parks to jointly protect the creek, but now they operate separately.