Advanced Mineralogy
Subtitle: Mineral Matter in Space, Mantle, Ocean Floor, Biosphere, Environmental Management, and Jewelry (Advanced Mineralogy, 3)
Publisher: Springer
Published: June 1998
Language: eng
Number of pages: 463
ISBN-13: 9780387582450
First sentence: The extended scope of mineralogy, including extraterrestrial materials, came first from increasingly sophisticated studies of meteorites, then from direct studies of lunar samples, then from the comparative mineralogy of terrestrial and giant planets, and finally from data on interplanetary dust and interstellar presolar mineral dust.