Celebrating the International Year of Mineralogy

Progress and Landmark Discoveries of the Last Decades

Luca Bindi, Giuseppe Cruciani (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

X, 359 Seiten

2023 | 2023
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-28804-3 (ISBN)

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This volume celebrates mineral sciences and what are considered the most important progresses and breakthroughs in this discipline. Authoritative authors, who, in most cases, are the direct discoverers recount the steps of their research, which represent landmark developments of mineralogy and mineralogical crystallography.

Editorial.- Discovery of fullerenes and quasicrystals in nature.- The Evolution of Mineral Evolution.- Mineral Informatics: Origins.- The Discovery of New Minerals in Modern Mineralogy: Experience, Implications and Perspectives.- Structural and chemical complexity of minerals: the information-based approach.- Predicting HP-HT Earth and planetary materials.- Structural mechanisms stabilizing hydrous silicates at deep-Earth conditions.- Discovering High-pressure and High-temperature Minerals.- Mineralogy of Planetary Cores.- Going inside a diamond.- Mineralogy of returned sample from C-type near-Earth asteroid (162173) Ryugu.- Mineral discoveries that changed everyday life.- Hydrogen, the principal agent of structural and chemical diversity in minerals.

Erscheinungsdatum	09.05.2023
Reihe/Serie	Springer Mineralogy
Zusatzinfo	X, 359 p. 126 illus., 98 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	714 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Mineralogie / Paläontologie
	Technik ► Maschinenbau
Schlagworte	crystallography • Diamond • Extraterrestrial Minerals • Fullerene • Mineral Physics • Quasicrystal
ISBN-10	3-031-28804-1 / 3031288041
ISBN-13	978-3-031-28804-3 / 9783031288043
Zustand	Neuware