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Physical Properties and Thermodynamic Behaviour of Minerals

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  • © 1988

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Editors:
  1. Ekhard K. H. Salje

    1. Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, UK

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Part of the book series: Nato Science Series C: (ASIC, volume 225)

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiv
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  2. The Microscopic Mechanisms of Complex Structural Phase Transitions

    • Volker Heine
    Pages 1-15

  3. The Thermodynamics of Short Range Order

    • J. D. C. McConnell
    Pages 17-48

  4. Incommensurability in Two Classes of Solids: Modulated Insulators and Quasicrystalline Alloys

    • F. Dénoyer
    Pages 49-74

  5. Structural Phase Transitions and Specific Heat Anomalies

    • Ekhard Salje
    Pages 75-118

  6. What Can Spin Models Tell Us about the Behaviour of Minerals?

    • Julia Yeomans
    Pages 119-142

  7. New Developments in Raman Spectroscopy on Structural Phase Transitions

    • Ulrich Bismayer
    Pages 143-183

  8. Linear and Circular Birefringence and Crystal Structures

    • A. M. Glazer
    Pages 185-212

  9. Exsolution, Ordering and Structural Transformations: Systematics and Synergistics

    • D. E. Laughlin, W. A. Soffa
    Pages 213-264

  10. Thermochemistry of Aluminium/Silicon Ordering in Feldspar Minerals

    • M. A. Carpenter
    Pages 265-323

  11. Solid State NMR Spectroscopy and Phase Transitions in Minerals

    • Andrew Putnis
    Pages 325-358

  12. Nonlinear Dynamics of Lattice Models for Elastic Media

    • J. Pouget
    Pages 359-401

  13. Experimental Studies of Mineral Energetics

    • Alexandra Navrotsky
    Pages 403-432

  14. Heat Capacity of Solids

    • M. J. Tello, A. López-Echarri
    Pages 433-458

  15. Magnetic Ordering and Thermodynamics in Silicates

    • J. M. D. Coey, S. Ghose
    Pages 459-499

  16. Molecular Dynamics Simulations in the Solid State Sciences

    • Martin Dove
    Pages 501-590

  17. The Computer Simulation of the Lattice Dynamics of Silicates

    • Geoffrey D. Price, Stephen C. Parker
    Pages 591-618

  18. Computer Modelling of Silicates

    • C. R. A. Catlow
    Pages 619-638

  19. UV to NIR Spectra of Silicate Minerals Obtained by Microscope Spectrometry and their Use in Mineral Thermodynamics and Kinetics

    • K. Langer
    Pages 639-685

  20. Recent Advances in the Mineralogical Applications of the 57Fe Mössbauer Effect

    • F. Seifert
    Pages 687-703
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About this book

The role played by earth sciences in the scientific community has changed considerably during this century. Since the revolutionary discoveries of global processes such as plate tectonics, there has been an increasing awareness of just how fundamental many of the mechanisms which dominate in these processes depend on the physical properties of the materials of which the earth is made. One of the prime objectives of mineral sciences is now to understand and predict these properties in a truly quantitative manner. The macroscopic properties which are of most immediate interest in this context fall within the conventional definitions of thermodynamics, magnetism, elasticity, dielectric susceptibilities, conductivity etc. These properties reflect the microscopic contributions, at an atomistic level, of harmonic and anharmonic lattice vibrations, ionic and electronic transport as well as a great variety of ordering and clustering phenomena. The advances made by solid state physicists and chemists in defining the underlying phenomena lnvolved in the thermal evolution of materials have stimulated major new research initiatives within the Earth Sciences. Earth Scientists have combined to form active groups within the wider community of solid state and materials scientists working towards a better understanding of those physical processes which govern not only the behaviour of simple model compounds but also that of complex materials like minerals. Concomitant with this change in direction has come an increasing awareness of the need to use the typical working tools of other disciplines.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, UK

    Ekhard K. H. Salje

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Physical Properties and Thermodynamic Behaviour of Minerals

  • Editors: Ekhard K. H. Salje

  • Series Title: Nato Science Series C:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2891-6

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1988

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-2656-8Published: 31 January 1988

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-7802-3Published: 10 November 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-2891-6Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1389-2185

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIV, 707

  • Topics: Mineralogy

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