Mineralogie & Petrografie

Origin of Potassium-rich Silica-deficient Igneous Rocks

Alok Krishna Gupta

The book summarizes the occurrence, geochemistry, mineralogy, petrology and phase-equilibria studies in air and under high pressures related to the most intriguing group of potassium-rich mafic an...

Uranium - Past and Future Challenges

This book is the collection of papers from the latest International Uranium Mining and Hydrogeology Conference (UMH VII) held in September 2014, in Freiberg, Germany. It is divided to five session...

Infrared spectra of mineral species

Nikita V. Chukanov

<p>Over the last 30 years, Dr. Nikita V. Chukanov has collected IR spectra of  about  2000  mineral species,  including  247  holotype samples.  In  this  book, he presents  3309 s...

The Science of Clays

Swapna Mukherjee

<p>This book is an attempt to provide a comprehensive and coherent description of three widely separated aspects of clays: the science of clays; the industrial uses of clays; and the role of...

Mineralogie

Martin Okrusch / Siegfried Matthes

<p>Diese Einführung in die spezielle Mineralogie, Petrologie, Geochemie und Lagerstättenkunde auf genetischer Grundlage konzentriert sich auf wesentliche Inhalte des Fachgebietes, die aber...

Cement Replacement Materials

Ali Akbar Ramezanianpour

The aim of this book is to present the latest findings in the properties and application of Supplementary Cementing Materials and blended cements currently used in the world in concrete. Sustainab...

Image Analysis in Earth Sciences

Renée Heilbronner / Steve Barrett

<p>Image Analysis in Earth Sciences is a graduate level textbook for researchers and students interested in the quantitative microstructure and texture analysis of earth materials. Methods o...

Deformation Microstructures in Rocks

Soumyajit Mukherjee

Study of microstructures is an indispensable component of understanding structural geology of any terrain. A number of ‘new’ microscopic structures such as ‘flanking microstructures’, trap...

Minerals of the mercury ore deposit Idria

Aleksander Recnik

The present work is the first comprehensive study of mineralogy of the world's second largest mercury mine Idria. In the first chapter the readers are acquainted with the history of mining and...

Rare Earth Elements

Volker Zepf

This thesis deals with Rare Earth Elements (REE), especially with neodymium used in permanent magnets, from a very scientific basis by providing basic research data. Despite the fact that REE are ...

Propiedades de los fluidos del yacimiento

Leopoldo Farías Rodríguez / Valentín Merola Pilerci

El estudio de los yacimiento es muy particular en tanto que es invisible, complejo e imposible de medir directamente. La complejidad de los fluidos del yacimiento, junto a la complejidad del medio...

Materials Science for Structural Geology

Mervyn S. Paterson

This book sets out the basic materials science needed for understanding the plastic deformation of rocks and minerals.  Although at atmospheric pressure or at relatively low environmental pressur...

Gesteinskunde

Ulrich Sebastian

Gesteine wie sie heißen und wozu man sie verwenden kannDas vorliegende Buch vermittelt einen leicht verständlichen Überblick über das Gebiet der Petrographie. Einsteiger werden nicht durch th...

Metasomatism and the Chemical Transformation of Rock

Daniel Harlov / Hakon Austrheim

Fluid-aided mass transfer and subsequent mineral re-equilibration are the two defining features of metasomatism and must be present in order for metamorphism to occur. Coupled with igneous and tec...

Quartz: Deposits, Mineralogy and Analytics

The book will include contributions of the state of the art of quartz raw materials (deposits and properties) and their analytics. <br>The chapters are presented by leading scientists in the...

Proceedings of the 10th International Congress for Applied Mineralogy (ICAM)

<p>This book comprises 96 peer-reviewed contributions submitted to the 10th ICAM Congress, held in Trondheim, Norway on 01-05 August 2011. Themes covered include:</p><p>1) Advanc...

Uranium Deposits of the World

Franz J Dahlkamp

Uranium Deposits of the World, in four volumes, comprises an unprecedented compilation of data and overviews of the key uranium regions throughout the globe. It offers not only a complete uranium-...

Minerals as Advanced Materials II

This book is a collection of papers that are devoted to various aspects of interactions between mineralogy and material sciences. It will include reviews, perspective papers and original research ...

The New Uranium Mining Boom

The book presents the results from the Uranium Mining and Hydrogeology Conference (UMH VI) held in September 2011, in Freiberg, Germany. The following subjects are emphasised: Uranium Mining, Phos...

Gossans and Leached Cappings

Roger Taylor

<p>This text concentrates upon field observations concerning leached cappings and gossans, occurring as oxidised surface expressions of underlying ore zones.</p><p>Although the a...