Recommended abbreviations for the names of clay minerals and associated phases
Despite the existence of an established convention for abbreviating rock-forming minerals (Kretz, 1983), there is still a wide range of symbols used in the clay minerals community that often follow no common set of rules. Following a check of 166 post-millennium research articles (not journal-specif...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Clay minerals 2020-09, Vol.55 (3), p.261-264 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Despite the existence of an established convention for abbreviating rock-forming minerals (Kretz, 1983), there is still a wide range of symbols used in the clay minerals community that often follow no common set of rules. Following a check of 166 post-millennium research articles (not journal-specific) in the author's literature collection, which were compiled using the Internet search words ‘clay minerals’ and ‘quantification’, a total of 472 mineral abbreviations common to clay materials and clay-sized ( |
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ISSN: | 0009-8558 1471-8030 |
DOI: | 10.1180/clm.2020.30 |