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
1. Verfasser: Warr, Laurence N
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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 (
ISSN:0009-8558
1471-8030
DOI:10.1180/clm.2020.30