Manual of Mineralogy - Softcover

Dana, James Dwight

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1603861025 ISBN 13: 9781603861021

Publisher: Merchant Books, 2008

Synopsis

An Unabridged Printing With Text And All Figures Digitally Enlarged. Originally Titled: Manual Of Mineralogy Including Observations On Mines, Rocks, Reduction Of Ores, And The Application Of The Science To The Arts. With 260 Illustrations, Glossary And Index Of Terms. Chapters Include: General Characteristics Of Minerals - Crystallography Or The Structure Of Minerals - Physical Properties Of Minerals - Chemical Properties Of Minerals - Classification Of Minerals - Description Of Minerals - Earthy Minerals - Metals And Metallic Ores - Chemical Composition And Formulas Of Minerals - Rocks Or Minerals Aggregates - Catalogue Of American Localities Of Minerals - Weights Measures And Coins - Tables For The Determination Of Minerals - A Comprehensive, 16 Page Index

About this title

From the Publisher

An interactive multimedia tutorial the CD-ROM is divided into modules which correlate to various chapters based on the 21st edition of the classic Manual of Mineralogy. Formatted for Macintosh and PCs, this graphically-based software covers all 32 crystal classes and important minerals from 30 major rock-forming mineral groups. 3D models and animations permit users to view crystal symmetries, internal orders and molecular structures and can be manually rotated around multidimensional axes. Formula substitutions allow users to perform atomic substitutions within crystal structure formulas and view graphics of resulting minerals. Hyperlinks between textual terms and graphics/video clips provide rapid connections between diverse media and content.

From the Back Cover

This highly revised 22 nd edition even has a new name Manual of Mineral Science. It covers chemistry and crystal chemistry earlier than in previous editions to make the text more accessible to a broader range of students. The first seven chapters are essentially independent, allowing for great flexibility in an instructor's preferred subject sequence.

Each chapter has new introductory statements that explain what follows. New figures have been added in many places and thirteen new "interest boxes" Relate the subject of mineralogy to matters that are of more general and/or geologic interest. Eight new color plates with photographs of 72 of the most common minerals are new as well.

An expanded and More Usable CD. A revised version (2.1) of the CD-ROM Mineralogy Tutorials is enclosed with this text, designed for both student and instructor use. It Includes many animations that deal with three-dimensional concepts (in crystal chemistry and crystallography) and which are difficult to visualize from a book illustration, as well as brief text pages for 104 of the most common minerals, with links to crystal structure illustrations, compositional and assemblage diagrams, stability and phase diagrams, solid solution mechanism, and so on. It has an "Autorun" feature for the PC platform; an efficient print function was added, and all animations were made compatible with Quick Time version 4.0. Furthermore, audio explanations by the author were added to about 50 screens to aid the user's understanding of the presentations and/or animations. The illustrations and animations are consistently large so that the images are extremely useful as an accompaniment to lectures, through a computer overhead projection system.

Laboratory Manual. Also available from John Wiley & Sons, Inc. for use in the mineralogy laboratory is: Klein, C., 1994  Minerals and Rocks: Exercises in Crystallography, Mineralogy, and Hand Specimen Petrology, revised edition, 405 PP.

Edition details

• Publisher: Merchant Books
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1603861025
• ISBN 13: 9781603861021
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 456