Methods and Instrumentations: Results and Recent Developments

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XXI

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2. Systematics of the Methods of Investigation of Minerals: Logic of Development

   • A. S. Marfunin

   Pages 1-13

3. Diffraction Methods and Crystal Structure Analysis

   • A. Guinier, Th. Hahn, V. I. Simonov, S. Altaner, I. E. Kamentsev, H. Fuess et al.

   Pages 15-63

4. Solid State Spectroscopy

   • F. C. Hawthorne, A. V. Bykov, N. N. Delyagin, V. I. Nikolaev, G. Amthauer, E. Polshin et al.

   Pages 65-228

5. Remote Sensing Methods: Visible, Infrared, and Microwave

   • B. Cervelle

   Pages 229-238

6. Microprobe Analysis

   • S. J. B. Reed, I. M. Romanenko, D. S. Woolum, P. Trocellier

   Pages 239-262

7. Electron, Acoustic, and Tunneling Microscopy of Minerals

   • H.-R. Wenk, A. C. McLaren, G. M. Pennock, V. A. Drits, H. R. Wenk, U. Beller et al.

   Pages 263-302

8. Recent Developments in Analytical Methods in Mineralogy

   • P. J. Potts, J. G. Crock, P. H. Briggs, V. P. Afonin, Chr. Koeberl, S. J. Parry et al.

   Pages 303-343

9. Isotopic Mineralogy

   • Yu. A. Shukolyukov, K. Wetzel, H. J. Lippolt, M. I. Karpenko, J. F. Sutter, D. J. DePaolo et al.

   Pages 345-420

10. Computer Databases in Mineralogy

    • D. G. W. Smith

    Pages 421-435

11. Back Matter

    Pages 437-441

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All existing introductory reviews of mineralogy are written accord­ ing to the same algorithm, sometimes called the "Dana System of Mineralogy". Even modern advanced handbooks, which are cer­ tainly necessary, include basic data on minerals and are essentially descriptive. When basic information on the chemistry, structure, optical and physical properties, distinguished features and para­ genesis of 200-400 minerals is presented, then there is practically no further space available to include new ideas and concepts based on recent mineral studies. A possible solution to this dilemma would be to present a book beginning where introductory textbooks end for those already famil­ iar with the elementary concepts. Such a volume would be tailored to specialists in all fields of science and industry, interested in the most recent results in mineralogy. This approach may be called Advanced Mineralogy. Here, an attempt has been made to survey the current possibilities and aims in mineral mater investigations, including the main characteristics of all the methods, the most important problems and topics of mineralogy, and related studies. The individual volumes are composed of short, condensed chap­ ters. Each chapter presents in a complete, albeit condensed, form specific problems, methods, theories, and directions of investigations, and estimates their importance and strategic position in science and industry.

• Analytical Methods
• Analytische Methoden
• Crystals Structures
• Instrumente
• Instruments
• Isotopengeochemie
• Isotopic Geochemistry
• Kristallstrukturen
• Minerale
• geophysics
• mineralogy
• spectroscopy

"...the only up-to-date volume which provides such a wide comprehensive summary of modern instrumental methods in mineralogy. This volume is highly recommended. The editor and contributors are to be congratulated on the scope and coverage of the current volume, and the books production and presentation is up to the usual high standard of the publishers." Geological Magazine

• Geological Faculty, University of Moscow, Moscow, Russia, CIS

  A. S. Marfunin

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