1. Edition - April 2010
129.- Euro
2010. 624 Pages, Hardcover
ISBN-10: 1-4051-4433-5
ISBN-13: 978-1-4051-4433-9 - John Wiley & Sons






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Short description
Today, as earth science curricula are evolving rapidly, many programs throughout the US are adopting new approaches to the study of earth materials. At many universities earth science departments are increasingly finding a single geological materials course to be an attractive requirement in lieu of the standard mineralogy-petrology sequence. This text offers the only undergraduate text to cover all rocks and minerals in one volume. With numerous illustrations, it places earth materials in context of earth systems.

From the contents
Preface.

Acknowledgments.

1. Earth materials and the geosphere.

2. Atoms, elements, bonds and coordination polyhedra.

3 Atomic substitution, phase diagrams and isotopes.

4. Crystallography.

5. Mineral properties and rock-forming minerals.

6. Optical identification of minerals.

7. Classification of igneous rocks.

8. Magma and intrusive structures.

9. Volcanic features and landforms.

10. Igneous rock associations.

11. The sedimentary cycle: erosion, transportation, deposition and sedimentary structures.

12. Weathering, sediment production and soils.

13. Detrital sediments and sedimentary rocks.

14. Biochemical sedimentary rocks.

15. Metamorphism.

16. Metamorphism: stress, deformation and structures.

17. Texture and classification of metamorphic rocks.

18. Metamorphic zones, facies and facies series.

19. Mineral resources and hazards.

References.

Index.

Periodic table.

List of elements.