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Of course, there are many sources of mineralogical and chemical data on clay materials. In the British context these include several well-known publications which have attempted to compile and summarize data from many disparate sources (Perrin 1971; Ridgway 1982; Sellwood & Sladen 1981; Shaw 1981). The monograph compiled by Perrin (1971) was published by the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland, and is yet to be superseded in scope; although it should be noted that, at the time of writing, the Mineralogical Society is in the process of preparing a multi-author book review of the knowledge and progress in understanding of the clay mineralogy of the UK stratigraphic column, made since the publication of Perrin's 1971 monograph (Jeans & Merriman 2006).
The publication by Shaw (1981) is an overview of the mineralogy and petrology of the argillaceous rocks of the UK. Shaw's discussion of the non-clay mineralogy of these rocks was severely limited by lack of available data, but trends and patterns in the clay mineral assemblages, based on analyses of clay-sized fractions, throughout the UK stratigraphic column were presented and discussed. The paper by Sellwood & Slade (1981), which appeared in the same thematic volume of the Quarterly Journal
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