With an approach that stresses the fundamental solid state behaviour of minerals, this 1995 text surveys the physics and chemistry of earth materials.

Though the deep interior of the Earth (and other terrestrial planets) is inaccessible to humans, we are able to combine observational, experimental and computat

Deep Earth: Physics and Chemistry of the Lower Mantle and Core highlights recent advances and the latest views of the deep Earth from theoretical, experimental,

Provides an encyclopaedic review of the material world in which we live and the uses to which those materials can be put. Everything from gold to hazardous wast

This book contains chapters on deep Earth materials, compositional models, and geophysical studies of material circulation which together provide an invaluable