This reference book is the third in a series of five volumes presenting a concise treatise on problems and final results of modern studies of earth and planetary materials in their most sophisticated aspects. It is encyclopedic in its coverage of subjects, which include the systematic description of all areas of mineral matter studies corresponding to the actual capabilities and needs of science and industry. This third volume, with contributions from 200 top specialists from all over the world, contains chapters on Mineral Matter in Space, Mineralogy of the Mantle and Core, Mineralogy of the Ocean Floor, Biomineralization, Environmental Mineralogy, Radiation Mineralogy, and Gemology and Jewelry.
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The extended scope of mineralogy, including extraterrestrial materials, came first from increasingly sophisticated studies of meteorites, then from direct studies of lunar samples, then from the comparative mineralogy of terrestrial and giant planets, and finally from data on interplanetary dust and interstellar presolar mineral dust. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
hydrothermal matter, suevitic breccias, thionic bacteria, diaplectic quartz glass, advanced mineralogy, target lithologies, bulk composition models, breccia lens, interstellar diamond, crater basement, thoron decay products, diaplectic glass, impact diamonds, impact melt rocks, nominally anhydrous minerals, impact melt breccia, mantle metasomatism, engineering geochemistry, geochemical engineering, precursor graphite, primitive mantle, gravitational evolution, reservoir minerals, middle mantle, planar microstructures Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Geochim Cosmochim Acta, Earth Planet Sci Lett, Geophys Res, South Africa, Lunar Planet Sci Conf, Contrib Mineral Petrol, Pacific Ocean, Red Sea, Cambridge University Press, Atmos Environ, Environ Sci Technol, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, Big Bang, University of Arizona Press, Annu Rev Earth Planet Sci, East Pacific Rise, Indian Ocean, Int Kimberlite Conf, John Wiley, Pergamon Press, Living Level Monitor, Offset Dikes, Philion Plate, Phys Chem Min New!
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The extended scope of mineralogy, including extraterrestrial materials, came first from increasingly sophisticated studies of meteorites, then from direct studies of lunar samples, then from the comparative mineralogy of terrestrial and giant planets, and finally from data on interplanetary dust and interstellar presolar mineral dust. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
hydrothermal matter, suevitic breccias, thionic bacteria, diaplectic quartz glass, advanced mineralogy, target lithologies, bulk composition models, breccia lens, interstellar diamond, crater basement, thoron decay products, diaplectic glass, impact diamonds, impact melt rocks, nominally anhydrous minerals, impact melt breccia, mantle metasomatism, engineering geochemistry, geochemical engineering, precursor graphite, primitive mantle, gravitational evolution, reservoir minerals, middle mantle, planar microstructures Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Geochim Cosmochim Acta, Earth Planet Sci Lett, Geophys Res, South Africa, Lunar Planet Sci Conf, Contrib Mineral Petrol, Pacific Ocean, Red Sea, Cambridge University Press, Atmos Environ, Environ Sci Technol, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, Big Bang, University of Arizona Press, Annu Rev Earth Planet Sci, East Pacific Rise, Indian Ocean, Int Kimberlite Conf, John Wiley, Pergamon Press, Living Level Monitor, Offset Dikes, Philion Plate, Phys Chem Min New!
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- Origin of the Earth and Moon by Alfred E. Ringwood on page 46, and page 150
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