Geological Magazine; July 2008; v. 145; no. 4;
p. 599-600; DOI: 10.1017/S0016756808004767
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JEANS, C. V. & MERRIMAN, R. J. (eds) 2006. Clay Minerals in Onshore and Offshore Strata of the British Isles: Origins and Clay Mineral Stratigraphy.
Reprinted from Clay Minerals – Journal of Fine Particle Science(2006), Volume 41 (1), pp. 1–550. London: The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland. Price £70.00 (members price £49.00); hard covers. No ISBN; ISSN 0009-8558.
Simon J. Kemp
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This book is the long-overdue successor to the 1971 publication The Clay Mineralogy of British Sediments by R. M. S. Perrin, in which several decades of clay mineral research were for the first time collated and discussed within a stratigraphical framework.
The twelve contributors have produced a much more detailed and interpretative account in their ten chapters that are arranged in reverse stratigraphical order. Much use has been made of data from UK hydrocarbon exploration activities that reached their height in the 1980s and 1990s, augmented by academic research studies and government-funded strategic surveys. Most data have been determined using X-ray diffraction (XRD) analyses, underlining . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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