The books that come closest to covering the material of this course are:
1.
Spectroscopic Methods in Mineralogy and Material Science (2014) Reviews
in Mineralogy and Geochemistry 78. GS Henderson, DR Neuville, RT Downs,
editors. Mineralogical Society of
America
This is probably the book is get if you’re only going to get one. Many topics and up-to-date.
We can put in a group order for books if enough of you want to order them.
2. Spectroscopic
Methods in Mineralogy and Geology
(1988) Reviews in Mineralogy 18. F.C. Hawthorne, editor. Mineralogical Society of
America,
We
can put in
a group order for books if enough of you want to order them.
3. Symmetry
and Spectroscopy by D.C. Harris and M.D. Bertolucci,
An
excellent
chapter on group theory and handy symmetry tables. Cheap,
too.
4. Spectroscopic
Methods in Mineralogy by A. Beran and
A link to other reference texts, journals, etc. for the course
are listed in
the Class Notes
section.