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Earth materials : introduction to mineralogy and petrology /
"The fundamental concepts of mineralogy and petrology are explained in this highly illustrated, full-color textbook to create a concise overview for students studying Earth materials. The relationship between minerals and rocks and how they relate to the broader Earth, materials and environment...
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction to Earth materials; 2. Materials of the solid Earth; 3. How are minerals identified?; 4. Aspects of crystal structures; 5. Crystallography; 6. Minerals and rocks observed under the polarizing optical microscope; 7. Igneous rock-forming minerals; 8. How do igneous rocks form?; 9. Igneous rocks: their mode of occurrence, classification, and plate tectonic setting; 10. Sedimentary rock-forming minerals and materials; 11. Formation, transport, and lithification of sediment; 12. Sedimentary rock classification, occurrence and plate tectonic significance; 13. Metamorphic rock-forming minerals; 14. Metamorphic rocks; 15. Some economic minerals, mainly from veins and pegmatites (K); 16. Some selected Earth materials resources; 17. Earth materials and human health.