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Minerals: A Very Short Introduction

Popular Science
By: David J Vaughan(Author)
137 pages, 23 b/w photos and b/w illustrations
Minerals: A Very Short Introduction
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About this book

The Earth contains a vast array of minerals, many with highly complex arrangements of atoms of several elements. In this Very Short Introduction David Vaughan explores the structure of minerals, the conditions under which they form and transform, their properties, and their interaction with microbes, as well as their importance in human health.

Contents

1: The mineral world
2: Studying minerals
3: Minerals and the interior of the Earth
4: Earth's surface and the cycling of minerals
5: Minerals and the living world
6: Minerals as resources
7: Minerals past, present, and future
Further reading
Index

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Biography

David Vaughan is Research Professor of Mineralogy at the University of Manchester and Founding Director of the Williamson Research Centre for Molecular Environmental Science at that University. He has held a Chair at Manchester since 1988. Professor Vaughan was educated at the Universities of London (BSc, MSc) and Oxford (DPhil, DSc). He has published more than 250 articles and a dozen books on topics in mineralogy and geochemistry. Awards he has received include the Schlumberger Medal of the Mineralogical Society (GB) and the Geochemistry Award of the Royal Society of Chemistry. He is currently the President of the Mineralogical Society of America (MSA) and is the only scientist to have served as President of the MSA, of the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland, and of the European Mineralogical Union. In 1989, the mineral vaughanite, from a gold mine in Ontario, was named in his honour by Canadian scientists.

Popular Science
By: David J Vaughan(Author)
137 pages, 23 b/w photos and b/w illustrations
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"an excellent choice for those curious to dig deeper into the mineral world."
Geoscientist

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