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1 Chairman, AIPEA Nomenclature Committee, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, 845 W. Taylor St., Chicago, Illinois 60607, USA, 2 (ex officio, Principal Editor of Clay Minerals), Department of Engineering, School of Engineering and Computer Science, University of Exeter, Harrison Building, North Park Road, Exeter EX4 4QF, UK, 3 (ex officio, Editor-in-Chief, Clays and Clay Minerals), Macaulay Institute, Craigiebuckler, Aberdeen AB15 8QH, UK, 4 Centre de Recherche de la Matière Divisée (CRMD), National Centre of Scientific Research, University of Orléans, 1b Rue de la Férollerie, 45 071 Orléans Cedex 2, France, 5 Department of Earth Sciences, University of Modena, Largo, S. Eufemia 19, I-41100, Modena, Italy, 6 Geological Institute of the Russian Academy of Science, 7 Pyzerskii Per, Moscow J-17, Russia, 7 9500, Ave Bento Gonçalves, Campus do Vale, Institute of Geosciences, University Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre-RS -Brazil, CEP - 91540-000, 8 Departmento de Cristalografía y Mineralogía, Facultad de Química, Universidad de Sevilla, 41071 Sevilla, Spain, 9 Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan, and 10 Clay and Interface Mineralogy, Aachen University, Wuellnerstrasse 2, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
* E-mail: xtal@uic.edu
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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. Most 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 Comité 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.
The purpose of the AIPEA Nomenclature Committee has been to make general and specific recommendations concerning: (1) definitions of mineralogical and crystallographic clay-related terms;
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