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The nomenclature of minerals : a compilation of IMA reports / [Robert F. Martin, editor].

Title
The nomenclature of minerals : a compilation of IMA reports / [Robert F. Martin, editor].
Publication
Ottawa, Ont., Canada : Mineralogical Association of Canada, [1998]

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Additional Authors
  • Martin, Robert F.
  • International Mineralogical Association
  • Mineralogical Association of Canada
Description
149 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Subject
Minerals > Nomenclature
Genre/Form
  • Electronic books.
  • Terminology
Note
  • "August 1998"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The IMA Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names: procedures and guidelines on mineral nomenclature, 1998 -- On the use of names, prefixes and suffixes, and adjectival modifiers in the mineralogical nomenclature -- Procedures involving the IMACommission on New Minerals and Mineral Names, and guidelines on mineral nomenclature (excerpt) -- The definition of a mineral -- Formal definitions of type mineral specimens -- Protocols for scientists on the deposition of investigated mineral specimens -- Solid solutions in mineral nomenclature -- Standardization of polytype suffixes -- Report of the International Mineralogical Association (IMA) -- International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) joint committee on nomenclature -- Nomenclature of the micas -- Nomenclature of amphiboles: report of the Subcommittee on Amphiboles of the International Mineralogical Association, Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names -- Nomenclature of pyroxenes -- Recommended nomenclature for zeolite minerals: report of the Subcommittee on Zeolites of the International Mineralogical Association, Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names -- Classification and nomenclature of the pyrochlore group -- Nomenclature of platinum-group-element alloys: review and revision -- The discreditation of mineral species -- Mineral names applied to synthetic substances -- Appendix. Symbols of the rock-forming minerals.
ISBN
0921294425
OCLC
  • 40819142
  • SCSB-10176490
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Harvard Library