Petrology, petrography and mineralogy

Designed specifically for one-semester courses, this beautifully illustrated textbook explains the key concepts in mineralogy and petrology.

This book presents select proceedings of the Indian Chemical Engineering Congress (CHEMCON-2021) under the theme "e;Sustainable Utilization of Resources for Chemical Mineral Sectors"e;.

The CADIC's Geological Resources Program will soon turn 40 years of fruitful development.

This book provides pathways and strategies for mud engineers and drilling students in the future drilling industry.

This book provides a fundamental description of multiphase fluid flow through porous rock, based on understanding movement at the pore, or microscopic, scale.

A textbook for graduate students and researchers in geology, geophysics, materials science, mineralogy and ceramics.

Metamorphic rocks make up the largest volume of the Earth.

This richly illustrated book provides an overview of the Neoproterozoic Pan-African Belt of Egypt (PABE), which represents the northwestern continuation of the Arabian-Nubian Shield (ANS) and the East African Orogen (EAO).

Remote Sensing and Image Processing in Mineralogy reveals the critical tools required to comprehend the latest technology surrounding the remote sensing imaging of mineralogy, oil and gas explorations.

This book appears a century after the discovery of radioactivity.

This book covers the more basic aspects of carbonate minerals and their interaction with aqueous solutions; modern marine carbonate formation and sediments; carbonate diagenesis (early marine, meteoric and burial); the global cycle of carbon and human intervention; and the role of sedimentary carbonates as indicators of stability and changes in the Earth's surface environment.

One of the fundamental objectives of physical geochemistry is to understand the evolution of geochemical systems from microscopic to regional and global scales.

Clay Sedimentology is a comprehensive textbook divided into six parts: - clay minerals and weathering - clay sedimentation on land - origin and behaviour of clay minerals and associated minerals in transitional environments (estuaries, deltas) and shallow-sea environments - diverse origins of clay in the marine environment - post-sedimentary processes intervening during early and late diagenesis - use of clay stratigraphic data for the reconstruction of past climate, marine circulation, tectonics, and other paleogeographical aspects.

The advent of flotation, with selective interaction of reagents with minerals at its core, has greatly advanced the development of modern mining.

This book summarizes the exploration history and provides a framework for assessing the economic potential of the country's minerals by defining minimal deposit parameters for the various commodities present.

This book informs the reader about a fascinating class of materials referred to as skutterudites, the atomic lattice of which has large structural voids that can be filled by a variety of foreign species, spanning from alkali to alkaline to rare earth ions.

This book highlights the most prominent research on the Popigai meteorite crater (Siberia, Russia), the 6th largest known impact structure in the world.

This book is for geoscience students taking introductory or intermediate-level courses in igneous petrology, to help develop key skills (and confidence) in identifying igneous minerals, interpreting and allocating appropriate names to unknown rocks presented to them.

Volcanic eruptions are fascinating manifestations of the Earth's dynamic inte- rior which has been cooling for the past several billion years.

The past decade has seen remarkable growth in research related to petroleum reseIVoir simulation.

The earlier editions of this book have been used by successive generations of students for more than 20 years, and it is the standard text on the subject in most British universities and many others throughout the world.

Geomaterials exhibit complex but rich mechanical behaviour with a variety of failure modes ranging from diffuse to localized deformation depending on stress, density, microstructure, and loading conditions.

In anschaulicher Form – unterstützt durch zahlreiche Abbildungen – wird in diesem aktualisierten Lehrbuch in die Methode der Kristallstrukturbestimmung eingeführt.

The readers of the first two editions of Stone: Properties, Durabi- lity in Man's Environment, were mostly architects, restoration architects of buildings and monuments in natural stone, profes- sionals who sought basic technical information for non-geologists.

The proceedings of the 11th International Mine Ventilation Congress (11th IMVC), is focused on mine ventilation, health and safety and Earth science.

This edited volume is based on the best papers accepted for presentation during the 1st Springer Conference of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences (CAJG-1), Tunisia 2018.

This book examines the experimental and theoretical aspects of bifurcation analysis as applied to geomechanics.

These words are written on the SOOth anniversary of Columbus' discovery of the New World.

Im vorliegenden Buch finden Sie viele spannende und oft erstaunliche Informationen über diese außergewöhnlichen und vielfältigen Materialien.

Mit Einführung des Abgas-Katalysators setzte die Diskussion über die möglichen Folgen von Platinmetall-Emissionen für die Umwelt ein.

This book is a result of a career spent developing and applying computer techniques for the geosciences.

This textbook presents the fundamental concepts and application of optical mineralogy in a very simple, systematic, and comprehensive way.

This book comprehensively covers many aspects of green mine, including the basic situation of green mines, mine facilities, extraction management, ecological environment, scientific and technological innovation, standardized management, environmental protection inspectors, and special tools in response to the needs of green mine construction, assessment, and management.

Most of our knowledge about the physical structure and the chemical composition of the Earth's deep interior is inferred from seismic data.

Soils and sediments influence current processes, preserve evidence of past processes, indicate evolutionary phases in landscapes and provide a basis for relative and absolute chronologies.

The book presents short papers of participants of the 8th International Scientific Conference-School for Young Scientists "e;Physical and Mathematical Modeling of Earth and Environment Processes"e; (Ishlinsky Institute for Problems in Mechanics of the Russian Academy of Sciences).

This comprehensive textbook covers all major topics related to the utilization of mineral resources for human activities.

This book provides a comprehensive description of the application of clay minerals as disinfectants and the ingredients of medicines.

This new edition of the classic textbook presents a large number of diagrams showing the stability relations among minerals and groups of minerals found in metamorphic rocks.

Health monitoring of civil structures (HMS) is a new discipline, which contributes to successful and on time detection of damages to structures.

This book addresses most of the environmental impacts of sand mining from small rivers The problems and solutions addressed in this book are applicable to all rivers that drain through densely populated tropical coasts undergoing rapid economic growth.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

This book introduces and explains all existing dry processing methods, drawing from larges studies about these techniques in both the academia and industrial sectors.

Feldspar minerals make up 60% of the crust of the Earth.