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Conference Program

Plenary Session:  Owen J Wordsworth Room

Chair:  John Keeling

ACMS President John Keeling

Welcome and house keeping.

R Eggleton and J Fitz Gerald

Illite from Muloorina, South Australia.

F Hubert, L Caner and A Meunier

Use of direct XRD pattern fitting to quantify clay mineral assemblage changes and unravel soil change processes.

C Johnston, G Premachandra, T Szabo and R Schoonheydt

Interactions of proteins on clay surfaces.

C-H Zhou, H Xia, G Jiang, D Tong and W Yu

Natural and synthetic clay minerals for tailoring preparation of nanostructured functional materials.

Aluminosilicates:  Owen J Wordsworth Room

Chair:  Jock Churchman

W Gates, J Bishop, H Makarewicz, N McKeown and T Hiroi

Presence of beidellites on the Martian surface.

N Chittamart, A Suddhiprakarn, I Kheoruenromne and R Gilkes

Beidellite in tropical savanna soils.

S Lessovaia, V Krupskaya, Yu Polekhovsky, M Vigasina and L Melchakova

Smectites in soils from serpentinous dunites of the Polar Urals, Russia.

H Bordallo, W. Gates, L Aldridge, G Churchman and Z Izaola

Water-cation interaction in Na or Ca saturated montmorillonite interpreted by neutron scattering.

J Keeling, P Self and M Raven

Halloysite formation in Cenozoic sediments marginal to the Eucla Basin, South Australia.

J Wyatt, D Lowe, V Moon and G Churchman

Discovery of halloysite books in a ~270,000 year-old buried tephra deposit in northern New Zealand.

D Russell, W Hudnall and B Allen

Micromorphology investigation of sepiolite bearing petrocalcic horizons formed from lacustrine sediments of the Southern High Plains of Texas and New Mexico.

Oxides, oxyhydroxides and sulfates:  Room S410

Chair:  Bob Gilkes

R Fitzpatrick, M Raven, P Shand, S McClure and P Self

Occurrence and environmental significance of sideronatrite and other mineral precipitates in acid sulfate soils.

I Bibi, Balwant Singh and E Silvester

Akagenéite (β–FeOOH) precipitation in inland acid sulfate soils of south-western New South Wales.

N Prakongkep, R Gilkes, Balbir Singh and S Wong

Pyrite and elemental sulphur cause acidification of drying wetlands on the Swan Coastal Plain, Western Australia.

Balwant Singh

Some observations on the structural incorporation of trace elements in the structure of iron oxides.

W Wisawapipat, I Kheoruenromne, A Suddhiprakarn and R Gilkes

Characterization of magnetic iron oxides in Oxisols using XRD and Fourier transform infrared spectrometry.

J Yang and R Frost

Facile self-assembly synthesis of high-quality disc-like heterogenite (CoOOH) nanomaterials.

N Zwingmann, G Carter, N Tezuka, R Hart, A van Riessen and V Golovanevskiy

Impact of physical properties on handling characteristics of iron ore.

Posters

I Bibi, Balwant Singh and E Silvester

Measuring dissolution rates of illite in saline-acidic solutions using flow-through reactors.

N Creeper, R Fitzpatrick, P Shand, P Self and R Kingham

A systematic analysis procedure incorporating the chip-tray incubation method for the hazard assessment of Acid Sulfate Soils in the Murray-Darling Basin.

W Gates and P Hines

Alkaline-leachate induces pore-filling reactions in GCLs.

K Anuar Kassim, A Eisazadeh and H Nur

Micro-structural characteristics of a phosphoric acid stabilized soil.

J Keeling, M Raven and P Self

Asbestiform antigorite – implications for the risk assessment of fibrous silicates.

Y Park, G Ayoko and R Frost

Synthesis and characterisation of organoclays using single alkyl chain cationic surfactants - applications for water treatment.

P Pasbakhsh, H Ismail, M Ahmad Fauzi and A Abu Bakar

Halloysite nanotubes as a novel nanofiller for polymer nanocomposites.

M Raven, R Fitzpatrick, P Shand and S McClure

Minerals diagnostic of acid sulfate soils.

Y Song, J Ji, C Mao, R Frost and G Ayoko

Vis/NIR spectroscopic study for heavy metals in seasonal suspended solid of Changjiang River.

F Theiss, S Palmer, G Ayoko and R Frost

Application of layered double hydroxides for water purification.

Y Xi, M. Mallavarapu and R Naidu

Preparation and characterization of zero-valent iron grafted bentonites and their applications for orange II decolourization.

H Zwingmann, A Todd, M Raven and R Hart

Authigenic illite formation - A tool for constraining timing of brittle deformation: Case studies from Europe, Japan and Australia.

Techniques and Analysis:  Owen J Wordsworth Room

Chair:  Will Gates

G. Bourrié and F Trolard

Estimation of thermodynamic properties of hydroxides, oxides and layered double hydroxysalts from the electronegativities of the elements.

R Joeckel, R Greene and J Mason

The role of clay mineralogy and electrolytes in determining the stability of clay pellets in dry saline lakebeds of the USA and SE Australia.

M Taylor, N Kim, A Taylor and D Guinto

Dealumination in soil of the Auckland, Bay of Plenty and Waikato Regions, New Zealand.

W Markgraf, C Watts, R Whalley and R Horn

Influence of mineralogical compounds and organic matter on rheological properties: Classifying stiffness degradation in soils.

A El Nahry

Using geostatistical analysis and spectral signature for identifying shale distribution and type in El Salhia project, Ismaillia, Egypt.

Chemistry:  Room S410

Chair:  Rob Fitzpatrick

H Cheng and R Frost

Thermal analysis of coal-bearing strata kaolinite/potassium acetate intercalation complexes.

E Yusiharni and R Gilkes

Do heated gibbsite, kaolinite and goethite rehydroxylate?

R Frost and S Palmer

Application of layered double hydroxides for water purification.

T Santini and M Fey

Hydrotalcite precipitation during neutralization of bauxite residue leachate with acidic saline drainage water.

B Sarkar, Y Xi, M Megharaj, G Krishnamurti and R Naidu

Preparation and characterisation of organopalygorskites and their application for p-nitrophenol adsorption.

Soil:  Owen J Wordsworth Room

Chair:  Balwant Singh

P Obura, D Schulze, R Okalebo, C Othieno, P Kisinyo, C Johnston and K Rana

Similarities and differences in the chemistry and mineralogy of some acid soils from maize growing regions of Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, and Brazil.

G Holbeche, R Gilkes and R George

Clay mineral assemblages in valley floor soils in south-west Australia.

R Mirkhani, M Hassan Roozitalab, N Khaleghpanah, N Rezaei and S Teimouri

Physico-chemical characteristics and clay mineralogy composition of selected soils in arid and semiarid regions of Iran.

T Darunsontaya, A Suddhiprakarn, I Kheoruenromne and R Gilkes

Relationship between K release from clay fraction to NaTPB solution and properties of clay for Thai upland soils.

Environment:  Room S410

Chair:  Mark Raven

K Hanna, E Clervil, M Usman, E Emmanuel and C Ruby

The effect of clay mineralogy on the transport of bromide and nalidixic acid in water-saturated soil columns.

D Krisnayanti, C Smith, L Condron and S Reichman

Effect of using organic and inorganic amendments on the weathering of overburden from a gold mine.

J Buckley, F Gassner, W Gates and D Gibbs

Forensic examination of field GCL performance in landfill capping and mining containment applications.

G Churchman, J Anderson and E Dunlop

Clay-based materials for the control and removal of oil spills.

Author Index