The standardisation of mineral group hierarchies: Application to recent nomenclature proposals

European Journal of Mineralogy

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1073-1080

  Mills, Stuart J ^a   Hatert, Frédéric ^b   Nickel, Ernest H ^c   Ferraris, Giovanni ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

IMA CNMNC; Mineral classification; Mineral group; Nomenclature; Supergroup

Indexed keywords

STANDARDIZATION; TERMINOLOGY;

IMA-CNMNC; NEW MINERAL; SUPERGROUP;

MINERALS;

NEW MINERAL; NOMENCLATURE; STANDARDIZATION;

EID: 70449361707     PISSN: 09351221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0935-1221/2009/0021-1994     Document Type: Article

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