Overview
- Describes a large number of experimental systems in which mineral replacement processes take place
- Explores the differences between polymineral metasomatic crystal growth and conventional growth processes
- Presents a rigorous overview of the actual growth mechanisms involved in polymineral metasomatic crystallogenesis
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About this book
"Polymineral-Metasomatic Crystallogenesis" is dedicated to the foundations of polymineral crystallogenesis in solutions typically occurring in nature. Effects, laws, and mechanisms of a metasomatic crystal replacement, joint crystal growth of different phases, mixed crystal formation, and aggregate re-crystallization as well as oriented overgrowth (epitaxy and quasi-epitaxy) and crystal habit origin are considered experimentally. The behaviour of these processes in nature are discussed in addition to pseudomorphs, poikilitic crystals (and other replacement forms), features of rapakivi structure, fluorite morphology, and many more. The concept is a generalization of the classic theory on crystallogenesis which is complicated by phase interaction in polymineral systems.
"Polymineral-Metasomatic Crystallogenesis" is designed for chemists, geologists, physicists, and postgraduates and advanced undergraduate students of these fields.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Polymineral-Metasomatic Crystallogenesis
Authors: Arkady E. Glikin
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8983-1
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-8982-4Published: 18 November 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-8043-1Published: 19 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-8983-1Published: 23 November 2008
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 312
Topics: Crystallography and Scattering Methods, Inorganic Chemistry, Geochemistry, Mineralogy