Petrology, petrography and mineralogy

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.

Since early 1989, a gem dealer I've known for years has been calling me every few weeks to brief me on mounting mayhem in Colombia's lucrative emerald market.

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.

The research papers presented in these proceedings volumes cover the latest developments and findings in the fields of mine health, safety, energy, waste management,reclamation and rehabilitation, mine closure and environmental protection.

This book provides an introduction into the mechanics of faulting in the brittle crust of the Earth.

This well-illustrated book aims to enhance observations and understanding of structural features and proximity-indicator minerals, critical in exploration.

The structure of sedimentary basins of the Russian Arctic Seas is studied and illustrated by a number of maps, cross-sections and geophysical models.

T is atlas is intended primarily for anybody who is in-some background for the arrangement of how the terested in basic geology of Africa.

This vivid introduction to economic geology not only describes the most important deposit types, but also the processes involved in their formation.

This book presents the theory and technologies of drilling operations.

This comprehensive book contains contributions from specialists who provide a complete status update along with outstanding issues encompassing different topics related to deep-sea mining.

The collection focuses on the advancements of characterization of minerals, metals, and materials and the applications of characterization results on the processing of these materials.

This book provides a comprehensive review of drilling technologies in the polar regions, from the portable drilling equipment for shallow sampling and coring, to heavy drilling equipment for deep onshore and offshore drilling.

The main aim of this paper is to present some new and general results, ap- plicable to the the equations of two phase flow, as formulated in geothermal reservoir engineering.

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

Since 1980 a considerable amount of scientific research dealing with geochemical processes in marine sediments has been carried out.

International Kimberlite Conferences (IKCs) are special events that are held across the world once in four to five years.

Switching off the pumps of a mine is one of the last steps in the lifetime of a surface or underground mine.

This book is a compilation of selected papers from the 2nd International Petroleum and Petrochemical Technology Conference (IPPTC 2018).

This book focuses on Romania's more than 12,000 caves, which developed in limestone (including thermal water caves), salt, gypsum, and occasionally in sandstone.

Dieses Buch über europäische Fossillagerstätten richtet sich an eine breite Leserschaft.

This book introduces recent development of technologies for mine waste management in China.

Environmental Interactions of Clays is the companion volume of Bruce Velde's book on Origin and Mineralogy of Clays.

Igneous petrology was to some extent essentially a descriptive sci- ence until about 1960.

This book represents the proceedings of the 9th written by a very active group of physicists at Kongsberg seminar, held at the Norwegian Mining the University of Oslo - physicists interested in Museum located in the city of Kongsberg about complex systems in general and geo-like systems 70 km Southwest of Oslo.

This book gathers technical and scientific articles by leading experts from 15 countries and originally presented at the world's most prestigious forum on coal preparation: the XVIII International Coal Preparation Congress.

This book offers a guide to the microscopic study of metallic ores with reflected light.

This edited work contains the most recent advances related to the study of layered intrusions and cumulate rocks formation.

The Encyclopedia is a complete and authoritative reference work for this rapidly evolving field.

This book examines picroilmenites and their ferromagnetic behavior in the kimberlites from the Yakut diamondiferous province.

This book furnishes detailed information about Turkey's existing mineral resources, besides providing concepts and ideas which may help the search for potential mineral resources in the future.

Uranium Deposits of the World, in three volumes, comprises an unprecedented compilation of data and descriptions of the uranium regions in Asia, USA, Latin America and Europe.

Optically Anomalous Crystals begins with an historical introduction covering the contributions of Brewster, Biot, Mallard, Brauns, Tamman, and many other distinguished crystallographers.

Few processes are as important for environmental geochemistry as the interplay between the oxidation and reduction of dissolved and solid species.

Connections developed in recent years between particlephysics and cosmologyare the focus of attention in this newtextbook.

This book, first published in 1989, the proceedings of the 19th Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium, is the first set of essays focused on the history of the subject.

This book, first published in 1980, is a timely and comprehensive appraisal of thresholds in geomorphology.

This book presents a translation and update of the classic German textbook of Mineralogy and Petrology that has been published for decades.

One of the most fundamental discoveries of the solar system was the detection of four moons in orbit around Jupiter by Galileo Galilei in 1610.

This collection presents papers from a symposium on extraction of rare metals from primary and secondary materials and residues as well as rare extraction processing techniques used in metal production.

Of course such a book as we propose here is not the product of just two people working together, although the experience has been a great pleasure for us.

The widespread mafic-ultramafic complexes in the Earth are well-known as their hosting Ni-Cu-PGE ore deposits, and their petrogenesis and mineralization have become hot issues in the geological studies.

Tis text has resulted from some forty years of experience during which the author has puzzled over the meaning of ore textures.