Selected publications and abstracts authored or co-authored
by W.P. Gates.
Book Chapters
Bouazza, A., Gates, W.P. Abuel-Naga, H. 2006. Factors impacting liquid and gas flow through geosynthetic clay liners. Two Decades of Geosynthetics in India, Commemorative Volume.
Geosynthetics in India - Present and Future, New Delhi, India. Chapter 9. pp. 119-146.(PDF)
Gates, WP. 2006. Application of X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy to the Study of Clays and Clay Minerals. Chapter 12.3.
IN: Handbook of Clay Science. Bergaya, Lagaly, Theng (eds.) Elsevier. (PDF)
Churchman GJ, WP Gates, G Yuan and BKG Theng. 2006. Clays and Clay Minerals For Pollution Control. Chapter 11.1.
IN: Handbook of Clay Science. Bergaya, Lagaly, Theng (eds.) Elsevier. (Abstract)
Hunter DB, WP Gates, PM Bertsch, KM Kemner. 1999. Degradation of Tetraphenylboron at Hydrated Smectite Surfaces Studied by Time Resolved IR and X-ray Absorption Spectroscopies.
IN: Mineral-Water Interface Reactions: Kinetics and Mechanisms. Sparks, Grundl (eds.) ACS. (Abstract)
Gates, WP. 2005. Infrared spectroscopy and the chemistry of dioctahedral smectites. p.126-168 IN: T. Kloprogge (ed.) Vibrational Spectroscopy of Layer Silicates and Hydroxides.
Clay Minerals Society Workshop Series. Vol 14. Aurora. (PDF)
Journal Publications
Gates WP. 2008. Cation mass – valence sum approach to assigning OH bending bands in dioctahedral smectites. Clays and Clay Minerals, IN PRESS.
Cashion JD, Gates WP, Thomson A. 2008. Mössbauer and IR analysis of iron sites in four ferruginous smectites. Clay Minerals, IN PRESS.
Wallis, P.J., Gates, W.P., Patti, A.F., Scott, J.L., Teoh, E. 2007. Assessing and improving the catalytic activity of K-10 montmorillonite.
Green Chemistry, 9: 1-8. (PDF)
Slade, P.G., Gates, W.P. 2007. HDTMA in the Interlayers of High-charged Llano Vermiculite Submitted.
Clays and Clay Minerals, 55:131-139. (Abstract)
Gates, W.P., 2004. Crystalline Swelling of Organo-Modified Clays in Ethanol - Water Solutions.
Applied Clay Science, 25:1-12. (Abstract)
Gates, W.P., Nefiodovas, A., Peter, P. 2004. Permeability of an Organo-modified Bentonite to Ethanol-Water Solutions.
Clays and Clay Minerals, 52:192-203. (PDF)
Slade, P.G., Gates, W.P. 2004. The Ordering of HDTMA in the Interlayers of Vermiculite and the Influence of Solvents.
Clays and Clay Minerals, 52:204-211. (PDF)
Slade, P.G., Gates, W.P. 2004.The Swelling of HDTMA Smectites as Influenced by their Preparation and Layer Charges.
Applied Clay Science, 24:93-101.(PDF)
Gates, W.P., Slade, P.G., Lanson, B., Manceau, A. 2002. Site Occupancies by Iron in Nontronites.
Clays and Clay Minerals, 50:223-239. (PDF)
Gates, W.P., Anderson, J.S., Raven M.D., Churchman, G.J. 2002. Mineralogy of a Bentonite from Miles, Queensland, Australia and Characterisation of its Acid Activation Products.
Applied Clay Science, 20:189-197. (Abstract)
Favre, F., Tessier, D., Delariviere, J.L. Maight, J.L., Abdelmoula, M., Genin, J.M., Hammecker, C., Gates, W.P., Boivin, P. 2002. Iron Reduction and CEC Changes in a Temporarily Reduced Soil.
European Journal of Soil Science, 53:175-183. (Abstract)
Abiotic Transformation of Perchloroethylene in Homogeneous Dithionite Solution and in Suspensions of Dithionite-Treated Clay Minerals. 2001.
Environmental Science and Technology, 35:2244-2251. (Abstract)
Electronic and Structural Properties of Reduced-Charge Montmorillonites 2000, Applied Clay Science, 16:257-271. (Abstract)
Geology and Characterization of Two Hydrothermal Nontronites from Weathered Metamorphic Rocks at the Uley Graphite Miner, South Australia. 2000,
Clays and Clay Minerals, 48:537-548. (PDF)
Surface Structural Model for Ferrihydrite. 1997.
Clays and Clay Minerals, 45:448-460. (Abstract)
Structural Properties of Reduced Upton Montmorillonite. 1996.
Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 23: 535-541. (Abstract)
Spectroscopic Study of Hectorite Dissolution in HCl. 1994.
Geologica, 38: 183-191. (Abstract)
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