Overview
- Provides a lucid introduction to crystalline materials such as terrestrial minerals
- Enhances your understanding of Earth's processes both in the crust and mantle
- Includes exercises that illustrate the basic concepts of crystallography
Part of the book series: Springer Textbooks in Earth Sciences, Geography and Environment (STEGE)
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Geometric Crystallography
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Crystallophysics
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About this book
This textbook presents an extensive manual of crystallography, including geometric crystallography, crystallochemistry, and crystallophysics. Illustrated with a wealth of figures and diagrams, it offers a thorough introduction to crystals for undergraduate and graduate students interested in learning the essentials and advanced concepts of crystallography.
The book begins with basic concepts such as the geometry, morphology and symmetry of lattices, allowing readers to approach the subject from a mathematical point of view, abstracting it from its material content. In turn, the second part focuses on crystallochemistry and explains the differences between ideal and real crystals, and between static and dynamic ones. The third part of the textbook concerns crystallophysics and addresses the electrical, magnetic, mechanical, elastic and optical properties of crystals, as well as the fundamental laws and methods of X-ray diffraction.Authors and Affiliations
About the author
She is Professor of Crystallography and Mineralogy of the Department Geology of the Oviedo University. She got Degree in Geological Sciences from the Oviedo University in 1978 and PhD in Geology from the same university in 1985. She is Gemologist from the Barcelona University and Fellowship Diploma from the Gemmological Association of Great Britain in 1990. She teaches crystallography in the Bachelor of Geology and courses about environmental mineralogy in the master of Geological Resources and Geological Engineering of the Geology Faculty of the Oviedo University. She published on optical properties of opaque minerals, crystal structure refinement of minerals, environmental mineralogy (atmospheric particles), physical and chemical characteristics of vermiculites and its application, geoarcheology
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Crystallography
Book Subtitle: Introduction to the Study of Minerals
Authors: Celia Marcos
Series Title: Springer Textbooks in Earth Sciences, Geography and Environment
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96783-3
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 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-96782-6Published: 03 December 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-96785-7Published: 03 December 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-96783-3Published: 02 December 2022
Series ISSN: 2510-1307
Series E-ISSN: 2510-1315
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 523
Number of Illustrations: 649 b/w illustrations, 427 illustrations in colour
Topics: Earth Sciences, general, Geochemistry