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Nomenclature and classification of the clay minerals*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

E. K. Lazarenko*
Affiliation:
Ivan Franko State Univeristy, LvovUkraine S.S.R.
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Extract

Only recently has it been possible to perform quantitative mineralogical analysis of clays and to establish the crystallochemical and morphological characteristics of the different clay minerals. The classification and nomenclature of these minerals is complicated by the existence of mixed-layer structures which are essentially epitaxial assemblages.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1959

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As this paper was published in full in “The Investigation and Utilization of Clays” (D. P. Bobrovnik et aL, editors), Izdatelstvo Lvov. Univ., 1958, p. 34, only a summary is plesented here.—Ed.

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* As this paper was published in full in “The Investigation and Utilization of Clays” (D. P. Bobrovnik et aL, editors), Izdatelstvo Lvov. Univ., 1958, p. 34, only a summary is plesented here.—Ed.