
Rock Forming Minerals, Volume 3A: Micas
Product code: RFM3A
Print publication date: 23/02/2004
Earth Materials Deposits and Petrology, Mineralogy, GSL Rock-Forming Minerals, Geological Society of London
Type: Book (Hardback)
Binding: Hardback
ISBN: 9781862391420
Author/Edited by: By M.E. Fleet
Weight: 1.65kg
Number of pages: 782
£125.00
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Product Code: RFM3A
By M.E. Fleet
Volume 3A of the second edition of Rock-Forming Minerals focuses on the micas. The first edition of Volume 3 was the platform for systematic study of the rock-forming sheet silicate minerals in the modern era of research but is now outdated by the enormous increase in the literature since its publication in 1962.
In this extensive and comprehensive review, the mica sections of Volume 3 have been completely rewritten, reorganized and greatly expanded. The text covers such aspects as crystal structure, crystal chemistry, chemical spectroscopy, stability and phase relations, redox behaviour and weathering, stable isotope geochemistry, geochronology, and igneous and metamorphic geochemistry and petrology. There are more than 3000 literature references, 350 illustrations and 260 chemical analyses selected to illustrate the diversity in chemical composition of micas.
Rock-Forming Minerals is an essential reference work for professionals, researchers and postgraduate students in earth sciences and related fields in chemistry, physics, engineering sciences, and agricultural sciences.
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Abbreviations and Symbols
Preface to the First Edition
Preface to the Second Edition
The Micas
Chapter 1 Mica Group
Chapter 2 Muscovite and Phengite
Chapter 3 Paragonite
Chapter 4 Other Dioctahedral True Micas
Chapter 5 Biotite
Chapter 6 Lithium Micas
Chapter 7 Other Trioctahedral True Micas
Chapter 8 Brittle Micas
Acknowledgements
Index