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Phyllosilicates

There are a whole bunch of minerals that belong in the phyllosilicate group. Only some of them are "clay" minerals. Others include the micas (muscovite, biotite, etc.), and while they do have OH ions in their structure, the origin of that water can be magmatic (from the igneous magma) and not meteoric (ground water).

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