THE descriptive part of Winchell's “Optical Mineralogy” has been completely rewritten and much enlarged to form the second edition. With the exception of a few of the commoner opaque minerals, there ...
Thin section petrography, geochemistry, scanning electron microscopy and X-ray diffraction are key scientific methods used to investigate the raw materials, origins and production technology of ...
THIS handsome volume, with its beautifully chromo-lithographed plates, supplies a want that has long been felt in English scientific literature. It was scarcely fitting that in this country, where the ...