Mineral Composition of Clay Fractions and Oxygen Vacancies in Silt-Sized Quartz in Soils on the Ka-Etsu Plateau, Fukui, Central Japan—Possibility of Eolian Dust Brought from Northern Asia as Parent Material of Soils

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