The brief review has been presented on the structural studies of zeolites and its recent development. It consists of 1) introduction which contains the explanation of the general features of zeolite minerals, 2) the method of understanding the structure of tectosilicates which explains the frameworks on the basis of the subgroup relations between real and topological structures, 3) the method of description of the framework structures, for instance, SBU, σ-transformation and other operator methods, 4) the recent studies on the structures including Lowenstein rule, order-disorder problems and also studies by powder methods and others, and 5) concluding remarks.
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