This lack of an apparent trend in smectite or kaolinite abundance may reflect the postdepositional neomorphism of original clay minerals, highlighting the challenges in identifying long-term patterns in continental weathering and marine authigenesis from clay mineralogy alone ( 40 , 41 ).
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Lithium isotopic constraints on the evolution of continental clay mineral factory and marine oxygenation in the earliest Paleozoic Era.
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