Book contents
- Meteorite Mineralogy
- Cambridge Planetary Science
- Meteorite Mineralogy
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Minerals and Meteorites
- 2 Definitions and Explications
- 3 Brief Review of Crystallography and Crystal Chemistry
- 4 Properties of Minerals
- 5 Identification of Meteoritic Minerals in Reflected Light, by Backscattered Electron Imaging, and by Energy Dispersive X-Ray Spectroscopy, Wavelength-Dispersive X-Ray Spectroscopy, and Electron Backscatter Diffraction Analysis
- 6 Meteorite Classification and Taxonomy
- 7 Mineralogy of Major Physical Components of Chondrites
- 8 Petrologic and Mineralogical Characteristics of Meteorite Groups
- 9 Cosmomineralogy
- 10 Formation of Meteoritic Minerals in Gas- and Dust-Rich Environments
- 11 Formation of Meteoritic Minerals on Parent Bodies
- 12 Formation of Meteoritic Minerals in the Terrestrial Environment
- 13 The Strange Case of the Aluminum-Copper Alloys
- Summary
- Epilogue
- References
- Index
- Plate Section (PDF Only)
1 - Minerals and Meteorites
Historical Foundations and Current Status
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 August 2021
- Meteorite Mineralogy
- Cambridge Planetary Science
- Meteorite Mineralogy
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Minerals and Meteorites
- 2 Definitions and Explications
- 3 Brief Review of Crystallography and Crystal Chemistry
- 4 Properties of Minerals
- 5 Identification of Meteoritic Minerals in Reflected Light, by Backscattered Electron Imaging, and by Energy Dispersive X-Ray Spectroscopy, Wavelength-Dispersive X-Ray Spectroscopy, and Electron Backscatter Diffraction Analysis
- 6 Meteorite Classification and Taxonomy
- 7 Mineralogy of Major Physical Components of Chondrites
- 8 Petrologic and Mineralogical Characteristics of Meteorite Groups
- 9 Cosmomineralogy
- 10 Formation of Meteoritic Minerals in Gas- and Dust-Rich Environments
- 11 Formation of Meteoritic Minerals on Parent Bodies
- 12 Formation of Meteoritic Minerals in the Terrestrial Environment
- 13 The Strange Case of the Aluminum-Copper Alloys
- Summary
- Epilogue
- References
- Index
- Plate Section (PDF Only)
Summary
The use of minerals and rocks by primates for making primitive tools is not confined to our species. Some chimpanzees, long-tailed macaques, and wild bearded capuchin monkeys use stone tools to crack open nuts and fruits, and in the case of coastal-dwelling macaques, shuck oysters. Hominins were using stone tools to scrape flesh from ungulate carcasses 3.4 million years ago. By 1.6 million years ago, hominins had discovered that some rocks (e.g., flint, chert, rhyolite, quartzite) were more suitable than others (e.g., limestone, sandstone, shale) for making hand axes; they presumably developed crude criteria (e.g., color, heft, friability, location) for distinguishing them.
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- Meteorite Mineralogy , pp. 1 - 43Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
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