| Klein (These refer to the 23st edition) | Bloss | Web link | |
| Composition of the Earth Abundance of the elements |
Chpt 5 | ||
| Ways of expressing mineral analyses | Chpt 5 | ||
| Corundum hexagonal close packing |
Chpts 4 and 16 | p 223-225 |
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| Spinel cubic close packing Inverse and Normal spinels Crystal-field stabilization |
Chpt 4 |
p 256 p 444 |
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| Iron oxides Defect spinel Magnetism polymorphs pseudomorphs |
Chpt 16 p 87 p 34 p 79 p 284 |
p 384-400 | |
| Perovskite coordination polydedra coordination number piezoelectricity Pauling's rules |
p 86 p 35 p 68 |
p 405-406 |
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| Manganese oxides electron microscopy |
Chpt 16 class notes |
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| Garnets solid solutions end member names geological environments technological garnets |
p 487 p 91-92, 95, 99 p 452 p 497 p 497-498, class notes |
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| Olivine series chemistry, solid solution structure phase diagram for melting M(1)-M(2) ordering geological environments |
p 446, 492-495 class notes p 449 class notes p 494-495 |
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| Crystal systems (reading) symmetry Miller indices crystal faces morphology unit cell |
Chpt 5, 192-201 p 175-189 p 198-199 p 338 |
Chpt 2 |
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| Pyroxenes nomenclature phase diagrams structural origin of polymorphs incongruent melting jadeite |
p 475-484 p 475-476 class notes Rev. in Mineral. Vol 7. p 323 p 482-483 |
Chpt2 |
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| Amphiboles chemistry and structure site distributions cleavage properties biopyrobles |
p 488-498 p 489 p 489-490 p 490 p 492-493 |
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| Sheet silicates 7, 10, and 12 Å layers micas polytypes serpentine |
p 498- p 430- p 506 p 507- |
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| Silica reconstructive transformation opal high pressure polymorphs |
p 526- class notes p 531 class notes |
p 153 |
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| Feldspars chemistry exsolution phenomena |
p 532- p 535-536 |
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| High Pressure Minerals methods to generate high pressure high pressure polymorphs six-coordinated silicon perovskite phases diamond |
class notes p 346- |
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| Zeolites uses evaporites |
p 550- Reviews in Mineralogy Vol 4 class notes |
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| Color | p 259- | ||
| Metamict minerals | Mineral. Record. 4, 177-82;214-23 | ||
| Bio Minerals | class notes |