This revised edition has entailed a thorough re-writing of the text, taking account of the impressive advances that have been made in all aspects of earth sciences, particularly mineralogy, over the recent years.
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A must if you study minerals,
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This review is from: An Introduction to the Rock-Forming Minerals (2nd Edition) (Paperback)
This book is an absolute must for anyone working with minerals in any way. Beeing an introduction to rockforming minerals it is very conprehensive. It is very valuable not only as a textbook but also as a handbook in the lab. As the title says it covers the rockforming minerals so dont expect to find exotic minearls. You can though expect to find a relatively detailed introduction to the most important minerals. It far surpasses any student minaralogy to my knowledge.
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The mineralogists 'bible',
This review is from: An Introduction to the Rock-Forming Minerals (2nd Edition) (Paperback)
The student edition of Deer Howie and Zussman is the most important mineralogy book that geology students should have in their collection. It provides information that not only helps while learning mineralogy, but becomes an essential and much consulted reference in later years. By limiting itself to the rock forming minerals it provides the solid information for learning real-world mineralogy without the trivial frills. This is the most consulted book on my bookshelf.
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An Introduction to the Rock Forming Minerals,
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This review is from: An introduction to the rock-forming minerals (Hardcover)
An great book. I have the 13th impression of this book published in 1982. We used this book in second year mineralogy and found it very useful not only in mineraology but throughout the remaining years of our geology program at University. The book is easy to use and has all the different groups, ortho- ring silicates, chain silicates, sheet silicates, framework silicates and non silicates and provides information pertaining to properties, crystal structure, chemistry and paragenesis.
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framework silicates, chain silicates, sheet silicates, ring silicates, twinning common, silica minerals, feldspar minerals, natural zeolites, mica group, smectite group, kaolinite group, atom pfu, higher extinction angle, smaller optic axial angle, higher refringence, atoms pfu, optic axial plane, small optic axial angle, titanian augite, larger optic axial angle, low microcline, high sanidine, anomalous interference colours, low sanidine, chromite series Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Zealand, Colour Colourless, Orientation Dispersion, Colour White, Northern Ireland, Dispersion Strong, Western Alps, Twinning Lamellar, South Africa, Pleochroism Weak, Carnegie Inst, Short Course Notes, Pleochroism Very, Acta Cryst, Cleavage Twinning Colour Unit, Dispersion Very, Dispersion Moderate, Western Australia, Neues Jahrh, Colour Dark, Twinning Composition, Dispersion Weak, Twinning Rare, Ric Special, New South Wales Browse Sample Pages:
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framework silicates, chain silicates, sheet silicates, ring silicates, twinning common, silica minerals, feldspar minerals, natural zeolites, mica group, smectite group, kaolinite group, atom pfu, higher extinction angle, smaller optic axial angle, higher refringence, atoms pfu, optic axial plane, small optic axial angle, titanian augite, larger optic axial angle, low microcline, high sanidine, anomalous interference colours, low sanidine, chromite series Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Zealand, Colour Colourless, Orientation Dispersion, Colour White, Northern Ireland, Dispersion Strong, Western Alps, Twinning Lamellar, South Africa, Pleochroism Weak, Carnegie Inst, Short Course Notes, Pleochroism Very, Acta Cryst, Cleavage Twinning Colour Unit, Dispersion Very, Dispersion Moderate, Western Australia, Neues Jahrh, Colour Dark, Twinning Composition, Dispersion Weak, Twinning Rare, Ric Special, New South Wales Browse Sample Pages:
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