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Clarification of status of species in the pyrochlore supergroup

Date

Authors

Christy, Andrew

Atencio, Daniel

Publisher

Mineralogical Society (UK)

Abstract

After careful consideration of the semantics of status categories for mineral species names, minor corrections and disambiguations are presented for a recent report on the nomenclature of the pyrochlore supergroup. The names betafite, elsmoreite, microlit

Keywords

Keywords: Betafite; Bindheimite; Elsmoreite; Microlites; Mineral nomenclature; Mineral species; Partzite; Pyrochlores; Stetefeldtite; Stibiconite; Semantics; Terminology; Minerals; mineralogy; nomenclature; pyrochlore Betafite; Bindheimite; Elsmoreite; Microlite; Mineral nomenclature; Mineral species status; Partzite; Pyrochlore; Roméite; Stetefeldtite; Stibiconite

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/78404

Collections

ANU Research Publications

Source

Mineralogical Magazine

Type

Journal article

DOI

10.1180/minmag.2013.077.1.02

Restricted until

2037-12-31

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