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Article: The second list of additions and corrections to the Glossary of Mineral Species (1995).
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- The Mineralogical Record
- Article date:
- May 1, 1998
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INTRODUCTION
As stated in the "Note added in proof" to The First List of Additions and Corrections to the Glossary of Mineral Species 7th Edition (1995), a major revision of the classification and nomenclature of the Amphibole Group has been published in several mineralogical journals. I have spent many hours with that report and this article is the result.
I have attempted to summarize the report by Leake et al. (1997), but I highly recommend that the original paper be consulted by readers interested in this complex group of minerals. So far, it has appeared in the Canadian Mineralogist 35, 219-246 (1997), Mineralogical Magazine 61, 295-321 (1997), the ...