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Saharan dust outbreaks over the study site had a total mean duration of five days (Fig. 7). It was observed during this passage that the central day presented the highest air temperatures and PM
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tetrahedral and octahedral sheets, the layer will have no charge, or will have a net negative charge. If the layers are charged this charge is balanced by interlayer cations such as Na or K. In each case the interlayer can also contain water. The crystal structure is formed from a stack of layers interspaced with the interlayers.
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attack on the minerals of the rind. This would lead to the rapid transformation of some primary minerals into products of atmospheric neoformation secondary minerals): the sulfates (mainly the
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