Celebrating the International Year of Mineralogy

Progress and Landmark Discoveries of the Last Decades
2023
ISBN: 978-3-031-28804-3
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 359 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 790 g

Reihe: Springer Mineralogy

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cruciani, Giuseppe

Bindi, Luca

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geologie Petrologie, Mineralogie
• Technische Wissenschaften Maschinenbau | Werkstoffkunde Technische Mechanik | Werkstoffkunde
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Geologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.