Phosphates
Subtitle: geochemical, geobiological, and materials importance
By: editors, Matthew J. Kohn, John Rakovan & John M. Hughes.
Contributors: Kohn, Matthew J.; Rakovan, John F.; Hughes, John M. 1952-
Series: Reviews in mineralogy and geochemistry,; v. 48
Publisher: Mineralogical Society of America
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 742
Subjects: Phosphates.; Geochemistry.; Geobiology.; Materials.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: value: Crystal structure of apatite, Ca₅(PO₄)₃(F,OH,Cl) -- John M. Hughes, John Rakovan; value: Compositions of the apatite-group minerals : substitution mechanisms and controlling factors -- Yuanming Pan, Michael E. Fleet; value: Growth and surface properties of apatite -- John Rakovan; value: Synthesis, structure, and properties of monazite, pretulite, and xenotime -- Lynn A. Boatner; value: Crystal chemistry of the phosphate minerals -- Danielle M.C. Huminicki, Frank C. Hawthorne; value: Apatite in igneous systems -- Philip M. Piccoli, Philip A. Candela; value: Apatite, monazite and xenotime in metamorphic rocks -- Frank S. Spear, Joseph M. Pyle; value: Electron microprobe analysis of REE in apatite, monazite and xenotime : protocols and pitfalls -- Joseph M. Pyle, Frank S. Spear, David A. Wark; value: Sedimentary phosphorites--an example : phosphoria formation, southeastern Idaho, U.S.A. -- Andrew C. Knudsen, Mickey E. Gunter; value: Global phosphorus cycle -- Gabriel M. Filippelli; value: Calcium phosphate biominerals -- James C. Elliott; value: Stable isotope compositions of biological apatite -- Matthew J. Kohn, Thure E. Cerling; value: Trace elements in recent and fossil bone apatite -- Clive N. Trueman, Noreen Tuross; value: U-Th-Pb dating of phosphate minerals -- T. Mark Harrison, Elizabeth J. Catlos, Jean-Marc Montel; value: (U-Th)/He dating of phosphates : apatite, monazite, and xenotime -- Kenneth A. Farley, Daniel F. Stockli; value: Fission track dating of phosphate minerals and the thermochronology of apatite -- Andrew J.W. Gleadow ... [et al.]; value: Biomedical application of apatites -- Karlis A. Gross, Christopher C. Berndt; value: Phosphates as nuclear waste forms -- Rodney C. Ewing, LuMin Wang; value: Apatite luminescence -- Glenn A. Waychunas.