Books


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, Washington, D.C., doi:10.2138/rmg.2014.78.0

      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, Washington, D.C. ISBN 0-939950-22-7

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, Dover Publications, 1990.  $16 or less on Amazon.com

An excellent chapter on group theory and handy symmetry tables.  Cheap, too.

4.      Spectroscopic Methods in Mineralogy by A. Beran and E. Libowtizky, Eotvos University Press, 2004.

            available through the Mineralogical Society of America
            http://www.minsocam.org/MSA/EMU_Notes.html

 

 

A link to other reference texts, journals, etc. for the course are listed in the Class Notes section.