Earth Materials Introduction to Mineralogy and Petrology
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This concise, accessible, market-leading textbook brings together the wide-ranging fundamentals students need to understand rocks and minerals, and shows them how they relate to the broader Earth, materials and environmental sciences. Designed specifically for one-semester courses, it is beautifully illustrated to explain the key concepts in mineralogy and petrology. This edition has been fully updated based on classroom experience, and new features include a completely new chapter providing an elementary introduction to thermodynamics, kinetics, radioactive decay and absolute dating; new…
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Key features
- Brings together all the wide-ranging fundamentals needed to understand rocks and minerals in a concise textbook
- Shows how minerals and rocks relate to the broader Earth sciences, materials sciences and environmental sciences
- Stunning color photos of specimens and CrystalMaker's 3D illustrations allow students to easily visualize minerals, rocks and crystal structures
- Online resources include CrystalViewer's 3D rotatable crystal structures, animated phase diagrams, answers to end-of-chapter student exercises and all the figures from the book as PowerPoint and JPEG files for instructors
About the book
- DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316652909
- Subjects Earth and Environmental Sciences,Geochemistry and Environmental Chemistry,Mineralogy, Petrology and Volcanology
- Format: Paperback
- Publication date: 24 December 2016
- ISBN: 9781316608852
- Dimensions (mm): 276 x 219 mm
- Weight: 1.73kg
- Contains: 1076 colour illus. 30 tables 360 exercises
- Page extent: 616 pages
- Availability: In stock
- Format: Digital
- Publication date: 25 September 2020
- ISBN: 9781316652909
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