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Clay minerals in onshore and offshore strata of the British Isles: Origins and clay mineral stratigraphy.

C. V. Jeans and R. J. Merriman (editors). [Hardback issue of Clay Minerals – Journal of Fine Particle Science, March 2006 issue.] Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 2006, 550 pp. [ISSN 0009-8558] Price £70 (£49 to members of CMS and other societies participating in Elements).

British Geological Survey, Keyworth, Nottingham NG12 5GG, UK

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This long-awaited compilation owes its origin to a 1971 monograph by R. M. S. Perrin of the University of Cambridge on the clay mineralogy of British sediments, in which available data were tabulated and discussed within a geological context. Even as this was published, Bob Perrin and his young colleague at Cambridge, Chris Jeans, were making plans for a much expanded successor monograph, and in the late 1970s the UK Clay Minerals Group took this on as a publication initiative. Each successive chairman of the CMG, myself included, was determined to see it published during his term of office, but this aspiration did not take into account the difficulties of holding contributors (actual and potential) to submission deadlines! Its appearance now is due in very large part to the industry and persistence of the senior editor who has led from the front in contributing three weighty chapters, and it is a fitting sequel to the series of ‘Cambridge Conferences’ on the relevance to hydrocarbon exploration and production (also published as special issues of Clay Minerals) that he organized in the 1980s and 90s.

The book follows the stratigraphic succession in reverse order, and in the first chapter, J. M. Huggett and R. W. O’B. Knox deal with both onshore Tertiary clays and their much more extensive, but stratigraphically less complete, offshore equivalents. Smectite is a dominant component of these clay mineral assemblages, occurring both as an alteration product of water-deposited volcanic ash resulting from pyroclastic activity associated with the opening of the . . . [Full Text of this Article]