『(Introduction)
Brindley et al.(1951) reported the earliest efforts to obtain
international collaboration on nomenclature and classification
of clay minerals, initiated at the International Soil Congress
in Amsterdam in 1950. Since then, national clay groups were formed,
and they proposed various changes in nomenclature at group meetings
of the International Clay Conferences. Mist of the national clay
groups have representation on the Nomenclature Committee of the
Association Internationale pour l'Etude des Argiles (AIPEA, International
Association for the Study of Clays), which was established in
1966. The precursor committee to the AIPEA Nomenclature Committee
was the Nomenclature Subcommittee of the Comite(eの頭に´)
International pour l'Etude des Argiles (CIPEA, International Committee
for the Study of Clays). The AIPEA Nomenclature Committee has
worked closely with other international groups, including the
Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names (CNMMN) of the International
Mineralogical Association (IMA), which is responsible for the
formal recognition of new minerals and mineral names, and the
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr), which considered
extensions to the nomenclature of disordered, modulated and polytype
structures (Guinier et al., 1984) published earlier by a joint
committee with the IMA (Bailey, 1977) In contrast to the other
national clay groups, however, The Clay Minerals Society (CMS)
Nomenclature Committee, which was established in 1963 at the same
time as the CMS and predates the AIPEA Nomenclature Committee,
remains in existence and occasionally produces recommendations.
The precursor to this committee was the Nomenclature Sub-Committee,
which was organized in 1961 by the (US) National Research Council.
The Chair of the AIPEA Nomenclature Committee is a standing member
of the CMS Nomenclature Committee so that the committees are in
close contact.
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Recommendations
Definitions and terminology for minerals, phyllosilicates,
clays and clay minerals
Polymorphism and polytypism
Classification
Criteria for interstratification nomenclature
Crystallinity and crystallinity indices
Commercial names and synthetic material
Miscellaneous
References
Appendix 1. Additional bibliography