The World of Mineral Deposits
A Beginner's Guide to Economic Geology
Authors: Neukirchen, Florian, Ries, Gunnar
- Easy to understand how deposits are formed
- Provides information to where raw materials can be found
- Contains many digressions about geological basics and economic aspects
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- About this book
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This vivid introduction to economic geology not only describes the most important deposit types, but also the processes involved in their formation. Magmatic, hydrothermal and sedimentary processes as well as weathering and alteration are explained in the framework of plate tectonics and the history of the Earth. The chapter about fossil fuels includes unconventional deposits and the much-debated fracking. Other topics covered are exploration, mining and economic aspects like commodity prices.
- About the authors
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Florian Neukirchen is a mineralogist and non-fiction author. After his studies in Freiburg, he worked on alkaline rocks at the University of Tübingen. Research trips led him to Oldoinyo Lengai in Tanzania, through the High Atlas in Morocco and to the Ilimaussaq intrusion in Greenland. He currently lives and writes in Berlin. Several of his books on geology have been published in German.
Gunnar Ries studied mineralogy in Hamburg. His interest in the weathering behavior of East African carbonatites led him to Uganda and Tanzania. He works at CRB Analyse Service GmbH in Hardegsen, and in his spare time he blogs about geoscientific topics on Scilogs.com.
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- The World of Mineral Deposits
- Book Subtitle
- A Beginner's Guide to Economic Geology
- Authors
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- Florian Neukirchen
- Gunnar Ries
- Copyright
- 2020
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-34346-0
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-34346-0
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-34345-3
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XI, 371
- Number of Illustrations
- 13 b/w illustrations, 318 illustrations in colour
- Topics
