Minerals: A Very Short Introduction

Name: Minerals: A Very Short Introduction
SKU: 9780199682843
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By (author) David Vaughan,

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The Earth contains a vast array of minerals, many with highly complex arrangements of atoms of several elements. In this Very Short Introduction David Vaughan explores the structure of minerals, the conditions under which they form and transform, their properties, and their interaction with microbes, as well as their importance in human health.

SKU: 9780199682843

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ISBN: 9780199682843

Book Format: Paperback / softback

Pages: 160

Dimensions: 11.4 × 0.8 × 17.4 cm

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Format Paperback / softback | 160 pages
Dimensions 11.4 × 0.8 × 17.4 cm | 126
Publication Date 23 October 2014
Publisher Oxford University Press
Publication City/Country United Kingdom

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David Vaughan

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David Vaughan is Research Professor of Mineralogy at the University of Manchester and Founding Director of the Williamson Research Centre for Molecular Environmental Science at that University. He has held a Chair at Manchester since 1988. Professor Vaughan was educated at the Universities of London (BSc, MSc) and Oxford (DPhil, DSc). He has published more than 250 articles and a dozen books on to pics in mineralogy and geochemistry. Awards he has received include the Schlumberger Medal of the Mineralogical Society (GB) and the Geochemistry Award of the Royal Society of Chemistry. He is currently the President of the Mineralogical Society of America (MSA) and is the only scientist to have served as President of the MSA, of the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland, and of the European Mineralogical Union. In 1989, the mineral vaughanite, from a gold mine in Ontario, was named in his honour by Canadian scientists.

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