This concise, accessible, market-leading textbook brings together the wide-ranging fundamentals students need to understand rocks and minerals, and shows them how they relate to the broader Earth, materials and environmental sciences. Designed specifically for one-semester courses, it is beautifully illustrated to explain the key concepts in mineralogy and petrology. This edition has been fully updated based on classroom experience, and new features include a completely new chapter providing an elementary introduction to thermodynamics, kinetics, radioactive decay and absolute dating; new mineral descriptions and many new stunning color photographs; and a new section on hydraulic fracturing and discussion of some of its most serious potential environmental consequences. The book uses stunning photos of mineral specimens and rock thin sections to help students build a core understanding. It also creates a highly effective learning experience through close integration of clear illustrations with engaging text, and helps students to easily visualize crystal structures through the CrystalViewer's 3D software, available online.
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Weight: 1730g
Dimensions: 220 x 275mm
Publication Date: 15 Dec 2016
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781316608852
About Anthony PhilpottsCornelis Klein
Cornelis ('Kase') Klein is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the University of New Mexico Albuquerque. He received his BSc and MSc in geology from McGill University Canada and his PhD from Harvard University Massachusetts also in geology. He has been a member of the geology faculty at Harvard University Indiana University Bloomington and the University of New Mexico and has taught courses in mineralogy at all these universities. His published books include Manual of Mineralogy (19th-21st editions) Manual of Mineral Science (22nd-23rd editions) and Minerals and Rocks: Exercises in Crystal and Mineral Chemistry Crystallography X-Ray Powder Diffraction Mineral and Rock Identification and Ore Mineralogy 3rd edition (2007). He has received two awards for excellence in teaching from the University of New Mexico. Anthony R. Philpotts is Emeritus Professor of Geology and Geophysics at the University of Connecticut a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Geology and Geophysics at Yale University Connecticut and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Massachusetts. He received his BSc and MSc in geology from McGill University Canada and his PhD from the University of Cambridge. He has taught igneous and metamorphic petrology courses at McGill University and the University of Connecticut for more than forty years. His published books include Principles of Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology 2nd edition (Cambridge 2009) and Petrography of Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks (1989 2003).