Korbel P., Novak M. The complete encyclopedia of minerals

Кольский НЦ РАН, 1997. -118 с. (язык русский/английский). В книге приведены сведения по геологии Ковдорского массива ультраосновных, щелочных пород и карбонатитов, по петрографии слагающих его горных пород, краткая информация по истории его освоения. Основная часть книги посвящена описанию морфологии, свойств и состава 175 минералов, достоверно установленных в пределах массива. Глава о минералах сопровождается 296 оригинальными результатами рентг...

Edited by. F. Bergaya, CRMD, CNRS-Universit? d'Orl?ans, France. B.K.G. Theng, Landcare Research, Palmerston North, New Zealand. G. Lagaly, Institut f?r Anorganische Chemie, Universit?t Kiel, Germany. Description. The first general texts on clay mineralogy and the practical applications of clay, written by R.E. Grim, were published some 40-50 years ago. Since then, a vast literature has accumulated but this information is scattered and not always...

Chelsea House Publications, Infobase Publishing, 2009, 112 Pages, ISBN: 0791097021 Every rock you see tells a story about the Earth. Glassy black rocks mark moments when the Earth's liquid insides spilled out onto its surface. Gritty, sandy rocks are the dead skin of the Earth, shed after years of wind and rain. Twisted, sparkly rocks formed deep in the bellies of mountains. In "Rocks and Minerals", young readers will learn how to read the 'sto...

The Hamlyn Publishing Group Limited, 1980. – p.320 An authoritative, practical identification guide to minerals, rocks and fossils of the world Over 600 specimens illustrated in full colour on 142 plates Every specimen described and illustrated on the same two-page spread Over 300 line drawings This guide is designed to enable rapid and accurate identification of minerals, rocks and fossils. It is arranged in the now-accepted tradition of practi...

Britannica Educational Publishing in association with Rosen Educational Services, New York, 2011, 358 pages. Anyone who has marveled at the glimmer of a perfectly cut diamond, tended a garden, or consumed a nutritious meal has appreciated some of the many roles that minerals play in our lives. Present in many natural substances, minerals are highly structured entities, each with a unique chemical composition and set of properties. Accompanied by...

Pan Stanford Publishing, Singapore - 2010 - 195 p. This book is intended to be a complete and clear introduction to the field of crystallography for undergraduate and graduate students and lecturers in physics, chemistry, biology, materials and earth sciences, or engineering. It includes an extensive discussion of the 14 Bravais lattices and the reciprocal to them, basic concepts of point group symmetry, the crystal structure of elements and bina...

1 edition - Ventus Publishing ApS, 2010. – 163 p. The first version of this text was written to serve as lecture notes for a first term geology course in "Minerals and Rocks" at Aarhus University in Denmark in 2003. hi Aarhus this course is accompanied by a general "Introduction to Geology" course that presents, for example, the structure of the Earth, plate tectonics and paleontology. These topics are therefore not treated here, and some knowle...