Environmental Mineralogy II

About this book

In 1997, the European Mineralogical Union (EMU) began organising a series of Short Courses ('Schools') with the associated publication of a series of review volumes (the EMU Notes in Mineralogy) on topics of interest to mineral scientists. The second School was held in Budapest in May 2000, along with the publication of Volume 2 of the Notes, on the then emerging subject of Environmental Mineralogy. This is essentially a second edition of that book, containing extensive revisions.

Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction: The nature and scope of environmental mineralogy / David J. Vaughan
Chapter 2. Analytical, experimental and computational methods in environmental mineralogy / Roy A. Wogelius and David J. Vaughan
Chapter 3. Minerals and soil development / David A.C. Manning
Chapter 4. Mineralogy of marine sediment systems: a geochemical framework / Andrew C. Aplin and Kevin G. Taylor
Chapter 5. Microbial controls on the mineralogy of the environment / Susan A. Welch and Jillian F. Banfield
Chapter 6. Atmospheric aerosol particles: a mineralogical introduction / Mihály Pósfai and Ágnes Molnár
Chapter 7. Mineralogy of mine wastes and strategies for remediation / David W. Blowes, Carol J. Ptacek and John L. Jambor
Chapter 8. Suitability of minerals for controlled landfills and containment / Rita Hermanns Stengele and Michael Plötze
Chapter 9. Mineralogy in long-term nuclear-waste management / Charles Curtis and Katherin Morris
Chapter 10. Mineralogy and Cultural Heritage Conservation / Giacomo Chiari
Chapter 11. Minerals and human health / Catherine Skinner

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