This book focuses on the environmental property of minerals including mineralogical record of environmental changes, mineralogical influence on the environmenta

In a sense, all mineralogy is environmental mineralogy. However, the term environmental has come to be employed (particularly in combination with terms such as

Few books achieve a connection between scientifc theory and real world environmental problems, but this one does. Generous use of color images, exercises, and c

This book covers the entire spectrum of mineralogy and consolidates its applications in different fields. Part I starts with the very basic concept of mineralog