The subject of mineralogy has moved away from the systematic treatment of mineral groups toward the study of the behavior of minerals in response to geological processes. It is vital that we understand the physics and chemistry of minerals as this response generally involves structural and chemical changes within individual minerals as well as reactions between minerals. This is the first text to provide an introduction to modern mineralogy for undergraduate students. The main, and often complex, concepts required to understand minerals and the processes that take place within them are presented in an easy to follow manner without any complex mathematical treatment. The book deals with solid-state transformations in minerals, which take place in response to changes in temperature and pressure, as well as introducing the basic crystallography, physics and chemistry needed to understand these processes. No knowledge of physics, chemistry and mathematics beyond high-school level is assumed.
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"...will be a valuable teaching resource. It brings mineralogy up to date and discards the obsolete baggage occasionally associated with the subject." S.A.T. Redfern, Geology Magazine
"...so good that anyone from a science sixth-former to a graduate student can have, at moderate cost, a well-illustrated and up-to-date text on how minerals work, all presented with the greatest lucidity." Times Higher Education Supplement
"...provides an excellent example of how important developments in one field can spill over to make a major impact on another discipline....would serve very well as a text for senior undergraduates and beginning graduate students in a course on crystal growth and mineral kinetics...a must for those interested in geological sciences and new ways of understanding earth processes." Robert R. Reeber, American Scientist
"...so good that anyone from a science sixth-former to a graduate student can have, at moderate cost, a well-illustrated and up-to-date text on how minerals work, all presented with the greatest lucidity." Times Higher Education Supplement
"...provides an excellent example of how important developments in one field can spill over to make a major impact on another discipline....would serve very well as a text for senior undergraduates and beginning graduate students in a course on crystal growth and mineral kinetics...a must for those interested in geological sciences and new ways of understanding earth processes." Robert R. Reeber, American Scientist
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In this introduction to modern mineralogy for undergraduate students, the main, and often complex, concepts required to understand minerals and the processes that take place within them are presented without any complex mathematical principles.
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The photograph on the opposite page (Figure 1.1) is a high resolution electron micrograph of the mineral cordietrite. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
hexagonal cordierite, chemical solvus, orthopyroxene structure, zone boundary transition, exsolution and ordering, orthorhombic cordierite, spinodal modulations, ordered anorthite, coherent solvus, augite host, calcite transition, disordered albite, tweed structure, displacive transition, pyroxene structures, tweed microstructure, augite matrix, pigeonite lamellae, empirical activation energy, complex mineral structures, conditional spinodal, reconstructive transitions, spinodal fluctuations, tetrahedral apices, regular solid solution Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Mineralogical Society of America, After Putnis, Cambridge University Press, Composition Figure, After Carpenter, Mineralogy Vol, Raoult's Law, Oxford University Press, Van Nostrand Reinhold, Hooke's Law, Tin Kelvin New!
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The photograph on the opposite page (Figure 1.1) is a high resolution electron micrograph of the mineral cordietrite. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
hexagonal cordierite, chemical solvus, orthopyroxene structure, zone boundary transition, exsolution and ordering, orthorhombic cordierite, spinodal modulations, ordered anorthite, coherent solvus, augite host, calcite transition, disordered albite, tweed structure, displacive transition, pyroxene structures, tweed microstructure, augite matrix, pigeonite lamellae, empirical activation energy, complex mineral structures, conditional spinodal, reconstructive transitions, spinodal fluctuations, tetrahedral apices, regular solid solution Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Mineralogical Society of America, After Putnis, Cambridge University Press, Composition Figure, After Carpenter, Mineralogy Vol, Raoult's Law, Oxford University Press, Van Nostrand Reinhold, Hooke's Law, Tin Kelvin New!
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- Oxide Minerals (Reviews in Mineralogy, Vol 3) by D. Rumble on page 385
- Stability of Minerals (The Mineralogical Society Series) by G.D. Price in Back Matter
- Kinetics of Geochemical Processes by A C Lasaga on page 331
- High Pressure Research in Mineral Physics (Geophysical Monograph) by Murli H. Manghnini in Back Matter
- Crystalline and Non-Crystalline Solids (His Treatise on Solid State Chemistry; V. 3) by N. Hannay on page 384
- Microscopic Properties and Processes in Minerals (NATO SCIENCE SERIES: C Mathematical and Physical Sciences Volume 543) by Kate Wright on page 424, and page 474
- Introduction to Mineralogy by William D. Nesse on page 94
- Alkali-Activated Cements and Concretes by Caijun Shi in Back Matter
- Coal Desulfurization: High Efficiency Preparation Methods by Komar Kawatra on page 39
- Computer Modeling in Inorganic Crystallography by C.R.A. Catlow on page 91
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