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The fine-textured, clayey soils have smectitic or carbonatic mineralogy.
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When van der Pluijm and colleagues analysed samples of rock from an actively creeping segment they found a thin layer of smectitic clay, less than 100 nanometers thick, that acts something like grease on ball bearings.
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Instead, they found that fractured rock surfaces were coated with a thin layer of smectitic clay, less than
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