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Celebrating the International Year of Mineralogy

Progress and Landmark Discoveries of the Last Decades

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Editors:
  1. Luca Bindi

    1. Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

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  2. Giuseppe Cruciani

    1. Dipartimento di Fisica e Scienze della Terra, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy

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  • Presents most important discoveries in mineralogy of the last decades
  • Promotes research in mineralogy, crystallography and their links to other sciences
  • Helps to increase public awareness of the importance of natural resources

Part of the book series: Springer Mineralogy (MINERAL)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Discovery of Fullerenes and Quasicrystals in Nature

    • Luca Bindi
    Pages 1-13

  3. The Evolution of Mineral Evolution

    • Robert M. Hazen, Shaunna M. Morrison, Anirudh Prabhu
    Pages 15-37

  4. Mineral Informatics: Origins

    • Anirudh Prabhu, Shaunna M. Morrison, Robert M. Hazen
    Pages 39-68

  5. The Discovery of New Minerals in Modern Mineralogy: Experience, Implications and Perspectives

    • Igor V. Pekov, Dmitry Yu. Pushcharovsky
    Pages 69-99

  6. Structural and Chemical Complexity of Minerals: The Information-Based Approach

    • Sergey V. Krivovichev
    Pages 101-129

  7. Predicting HP-HT Earth and Planetary Materials

    • Razvan Caracas, Chris Mohn, Zhi Li
    Pages 131-151

  8. Structural Mechanisms Stabilizing Hydrous Silicates at Deep-Earth Conditions

    • Mark D. Welch
    Pages 153-167

  9. Discovering High-Pressure and High-Temperature Minerals

    • Oliver Tschauner, Chi Ma
    Pages 169-206

  10. Mineralogy of Planetary Cores

    • C. C. Zurkowski, Y. Fei
    Pages 207-247

  11. Going Inside a Diamond

    • Fabrizio Nestola, Martha G. Pamato, Davide Novella
    Pages 249-263

  12. Mineralogy of Returned Sample from C-Type Near-Earth Asteroid (162173) Ryugu

    • Shogo Tachibana
    Pages 265-286

  13. Mineral Discoveries that Changed Everyday Life

    • Giuseppe Cruciani, Alessandro F. Gualtieri
    Pages 287-326

  14. Hydrogen, the Principal Agent of Structural and Chemical Diversity in Minerals

    • Frank C. Hawthorne
    Pages 327-359
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About this book

This volume celebrates mineral sciences and what are considered the most important progresses and breakthroughs in this discipline. Authoritative authors, who, in most cases, are the direct discoverers recount the steps of their research, which represent landmark developments of mineralogy and mineralogical crystallography.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

    Luca Bindi

  • Dipartimento di Fisica e Scienze della Terra, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy

    Giuseppe Cruciani

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Celebrating the International Year of Mineralogy

  • Book Subtitle: Progress and Landmark Discoveries of the Last Decades

  • Editors: Luca Bindi, Giuseppe Cruciani

  • Series Title: Springer Mineralogy

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28805-0

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-28804-3Published: 07 May 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-28807-4Due: 01 July 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-28805-0Published: 06 May 2023

  • Series ISSN: 2366-1585

  • Series E-ISSN: 2366-1593

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 359

  • Number of Illustrations: 28 b/w illustrations, 98 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Mineralogy, Geology, Materials Science, general

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