Highlights in Mineralogical Crystallography

"Highlights in Mineralogical Crystallography" presents a collection of review articles with the common topic: structural properties of minerals and synthetic analogues. It is a valuable resource for mineralogists, materials scientists, crystallographers, and earth scientists. This book includes:

• An introduction to the RRUFF database for structural, spectroscopic, and chemical mineral identification.
• A systematic evaluation of structural complexity of minerals.
• ab initio computer modelling of mineral surfaces.
• Natural quasicrystals of meteoritic origin.
• The potential role of terrestrial ringwoodite on the water content of the Earth's mantle.
• Structural characterization of nanocrystalline bio-related minerals by electron-diffraction tomography.
• The uniqueness of mayenite-type compounds as minerals and high-tech ceramics.

About the author

Prof. Thomas Armbruster, University of Bern, Switzerland; Dr. Rosa Micaela Danisi, University of Bern, Switzerland.

Product details

• Assisted by: Thomas Armbruster (Editor), Rosa Micaela Danisi (Editor), Thoma Armbruster (Editor), Micaela Danisi (Editor), Micaela Danisi (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 01.01.2016
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences
• EAN: 9783110417043
• ISBN: 978-3-11-041704-3
• Pages: 201
• Illustrations: 27 b/w and 51 col. ill., 10 b/w tbl.
• Dimensions (packing): 17.7 x 24.4 x 1.3 cm
• Weight (packing): 496 g
• Subjects: Geologie, Oberfläche, Mineralogie und Edelsteine, Geologie und die Lithosphäre, Erde (Planet) / Geologie, Materialwissenschaft, Kristall - Kristallisation - Kristallografie, Mineral - Mineralogie, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / General, Kristallographie; Mineralogie; Spektralanalyse; Oberfläche; Quasikristall; Ringwoodit; Nanokristall, Mineralogie, Kristallographie, Nanokristall, Spektralanalyse, Ringwoodit, Quasikristall