Thermal Analysis in the Geosciences

The application of thermal analysis in Earth and material sciences in reviewed by 18 articles, written by experts of the various geoscientific sections, including thermal and geoscientific characterization and potential use of the minerals, materials and rocks described. The book should be recommended to practitioners, researchers and scientists working in applied geology, mineralogy/crystallography, material sciences, but also environmental sciences.

Geosciences in thermal analysis development.- Differential scanning calorimetry and its applications to mineralogy and the geosciences.- Variable atmosphere thermal analysis - methods, gas atmospheres and applications to geoscience materials.- Measurement of different water species in minerals by means of thermal derivatography.- The determination of hydrated sulphates in the weathered crystalline rocks by means of thermal analysis.- Internal thermal reactions of minerals.- Kinetical study of mineral reactions by means of controlled transformation rate thermal analysis (CRTA).- Thermoanalytical investigations of binary oxide systems.- Kinetic analysis of the crystallization of silicate melts by means of DSC, DTA and thermal optical methods.- Application of thermal analysis in mineral technology.- Thermal investigations in technical mineralogy.- Application of thermal methods in raw material control and during the production process.- A study of the thermal behaviour and geotechnical properties of a marine clay and its composites.- Thermal analysis of selected illite and smectite clay minerals. Part I. Illite clay specimens.- Thermal analysis of selected illite and smectite clay minerals. Part II. Smectite clay minerals.- Remarks on the applicability of thermal analysis for the investigations of clays and related materials.- Differential thermal analysis (DTA) of organo-clay complexes.- Thermal analysis in environmental studies.