The second edition of Introduction to Mineralogy follows the highly successful first edition, which become an overnight market leader. Introduction to Mineralogy consolidates much of the material now covered in traditional mineralogy and optical mineralogy courses and focuses on describing minerals within their geologic context.

MINERALS; MINERALOIDS; MINERALOGY; MINERAL NOMENCLATURE; GENERAL REFERENCES ON MINERALOGY; REFERENCES CITED AND SUGGESTIONS FOR ADDITIONAL READING; INTRODUCTION; TRANSLATIONAL SYMMETRY; PLANE LATTICES; TRANSLATIONAL SYMMETRY: 3-D; SPACE LATTICES AND UNIT CELL; BRAVAIS LATTICES & CRYSTAL SYSTEMS; POINT SYMMETRY; REFLECTION; ROTATION; INVERSION; COMPOUND SYMMETRY OPERATIONS; SYMMETRY NOTATION; 32 POINT GROUPS; STENO'S LAW; MEASUREMENT OF CRYSTAL ANGLES; DETERMINING CRYSTAL SYSTEM AND CRYSTAL CLASS; SPACE GROUPS; CRYSTAL FACES; LAWS OF HAUY AND BRAVAIS; MILLER INDICES; INDICES AND CRYSTAL AXES IN THE HEXAGONAL CRYSTAL SYSTEM; DETERMINING MILLER INDEX; ASSIGNING MILLER INDEXES BY INSPECTION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC DIRECTIONS; ZONES; CRYSTAL FORMS; ISOMETRIC FORMS; NON-ISOMETRIC FORMS; COMBINING CRYSTAL FORMS; ENANTIOMORPHOUS FORMS AND CRYSTALS; POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE FORMS; FORMS IN THE SIX CRYSTAL SYSTEMS; TRICLINIC CRYSTAL SYSTEM; MONOCLINIC CRYSTAL SYSTEM; ORTHORHOMBIC CRYSTAL SYSTEM; TETRAGONAL CRYSTAL SYSTEM; HEXAGONAL CRYSTAL SYSTEM; ISOMETRIC CRYSTAL SYSTEM; CRYSTAL HABIT; REFERENCES CITED AND SUGGESTIONS FOR ADDITIONAL READING; INTRODUCTION; THE NATURE OF CHEMICAL ELEMENTS; NUCLEUS; ELECTRONS; FORMATION OF IONS; ABUNDANCE OF THE ELEMENTS; CHEMICAL BONDING; VALENCE-RELATED BONDING; RELATION AMONG THE VALENCE-DEPENDENT BONDS; BONDS NOT INVOLVING VALENCE ELECTRONS; SIZE OF ATOMS AND IONS; OXIDATION STATE; COORDINATION; REFERENCES CITED AND SUGGESTIONS FOR ADDITIONAL READING; INTRODUCTION; CONTROLS OF CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE CONTROLS WITH METALLIC BONDING; STRUCTURE CONTROLS WITH COVALENT BONDING; STRUCTURAL CONTROLS WITH MOLECULAR CRYSTALS; STRUCTURE CONTROLS WITH IONIC BONDING; APPLICATION OF PAULING'S RULES; ILLUSTRATING MINERAL STRUCTURES; ISOSTRUCTURAL MINERALS; POLYMORPHISM; RECONSTRUCTIVE POLYMORPHISM; DISPLACIVE POLYMORPHISM; ORDER-DISORDER POLYMORPHISM; POLYTYPISM; MINERAL CLASSIFICATION; COMPOSITIONAL VARIATION IN MINERALS; SUBSTITUTIONAL SOLID SOLUTION 4.30; MINERAL FORMULAS; GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATION; BINARY DIAGRAMS; TERNARY DIAGRAMS; REFERENCES CITED & SUGGESTIONS FOR ADDITIONAL READING; INTRODUCTION; MINERAL STABILITY 5.3; STABILITY 5.3; GIBBS FREE ENERGY 5.4; MINERAL REACTIONS 5.6; MINERAL NUCLEATION 5.9; HOMOGENEOUS NUCLEATION 5.9; HETEROGENEOUS NUCLEATION 5.15; CRYSTAL GROWTH. 5.16; RATE OF GROWTH 5.18; ZONED CRYSTALS 5.21; STRUCTURAL DEFECTS 5.25; POINT DEFECTS 5.26; LINE DEFECTS 5.28; PLANAR DEFECTS 5.31; TWINNING 5.33; POST-CRYSTALLIZATION PROCESSES 5.40; ORDERING 5.40; TWINNING 5.41; RECRYSTALLIZATION 5.41; EXSOLUTION 5.43; RADIOACTIVITY AND MINERALS 5.45; REFERENCES CITED AND SUGGESTIONS FOR ADDITIONAL READING 5.51; SECTION II: MINERAL PROPERTIES, STUDY, AND IDENTIFICATION; INTRODUCTION 6.2; MASS DEPENDENT PROPERTIES 6.2; DENSITY 6.2; SPECIFIC GRAVITY 6.3; PROPERTIES RELATED TO MECHANICAL COHESION 6.7; HARDNESS 6.7; TENACITY 6.10; CLEAVAGE 6.10; FRACTURE 6.12; PARTING 6.13; COLOR AND LUSTER 6.14; LIGHT 6.14; PERCEPTION OF COLOR 6.15; MINERAL LUSTER 6.17; MINERAL COLOR 6.18; COLOR FROM MECHANICAL CAUSES 6.25; CONSISTENCY OF MINERAL COLOR 6.27; STREAK 6.27; LUMINESCENCE 6.28; MAGNETISM 6.31; DIAMAGNETISM 6.32; PARAMAGNETISM 6.33; FERROMAGNETISM 6.34; FERRIMAGNETISM 6.35; ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES 6.37; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY 6.37; PIEZOELECTRICITY 6.38; PYROELECTRICITY 6.40; MISCELLANEOUS PROPERTIES 6.41; REFERENCES CITED AND SUGGESTIONS FOR ADDITIONAL READING 6.43; INTRODUCTION 7.3; LIGHT 7.4; LIGHT WAVES 7.4; POLARIZED LIGHT 7.6; INTERACTION OF LIGHT AND MATTER 7.7; OPTICALLY ISOTROPIC VS. ANISOTROPIC MATERIALS 7.8; REFLECTION AND REFRACTION 7.9; DISPERSION 7.11; PETROGRAPHIC MICROSCOPE 7.11; ILLUMINATOR 7.12; SUBSTAGE ASSEMBLY 7.12; MICROSCOPE STAGE 7.14; OBJECTIVE LENSES 7.14; UPPER POLARIZER 7.15; BERTRAND LENS 7.16; OCULARS 7.16; FOCUSING MECHANISM 7.18; ACCESSORIES 7.18; DIRECTION CONVENTIONS 7.19; ISOTROPIC MATERIALS 7.19; ANISOTROPIC MINERALS 7.21; INTERFERENCE PHENOMENA 7.22; USE OF THE INTERFERENCE COLOR CHART 7.28; EXTINCTION 7.32; FUNCTION OF ACCESSORY PLATES 7.33; OPTICAL INDICATRIX 7.38; ISOTROPIC INDICATRIX 7.39; UNIAXIAL INDICATRIX 7.40; BIAXIAL INDICATRIX 7.45; MINERAL COLOR & PLEOCHROISM 7.51; ISOTROPIC MINERALS 7.51; UNIAXIAL MINERALS 7.52; BIAXIAL 7.52; EXTINCTION ANGLE AND SIGN OF ELONGATION 7.53; EXTINCTION ANGLE 7.53; SIGN OF ELONGATION 7.54; CATEGORIES OF EXTINCTION 7.55; EXTINCTION IN UNIAXIAL MINERALS 7.57; EXTINCTION IN BIAXIAL MINERALS 7.58; INTERFERENCE FIGURES 7.59; UNIAXIAL INTERFERENCE FIGURES 7.59; BIAXIAL INTERFERENCE FIGURE 7.63; REFRACTOMETRY: MEASUREMENT OF INDEX OF REFRACTION 7.75; IMMERSION METHOD 7.75; REFRACTOMETRY IN THIN SECTION 7.81; ISOTROPIC MINERALS 7.82; UNIAXIAL MINERALS 7.82; BIAXIAL MINERALS 7.84; REFLECTED-LIGHT OPTICS 7.87; OBSERVATION IN PLANE POLARIZED LIGHT 7.88; OBSERVATIONS WITH CROSSED POLARIZERS 7.89; TACTICS FOR MINERAL IDENTIFICATION 7.90; THIN SECTION IDENTIFICATION 7.91; GRAIN MOUNT IDENTIFICATION 7.94; POLISHED SECTION IDENTIFICATION 7.96; REFERENCES CITED AND SUGGESTIONS FOR ADDITIONAL READING 7.98; INTRODUCTION 8.2; X-RAYS 8.3; X-RAY GENERATION 8.3; X-RAY DETECTION 8.6; X-RAY DIFFRACTION 8.8; POWDER METHOD 8.10; SAMPLE PREPARATION 8.10; INSTRUMENTAL OUTPUT 8.11; DATA REDUCTION 8.13; POWDER DIFFRACTION FILE 8.14; BRAGG REFLECTION INDICES 8.15; MINERAL IDENTIFICATION 8.16; MIXED SAMPLES 8.20; ESTIMATION OF RELATIVE MINERAL ABUNDANCE 8.21; ESTIMATION OF COMPOSITION 8.21; DETERMINING UNIT CELL PARAMETERS 8.22; REFERENCES CITED AND SUGGESTIONS FOR ADDITIONAL READING 8.23; INTRODUCTION 9.2; ANALYTICAL METHODS 9.2; WET CHEMICAL 9.2; ELECTRON PROBE MICROANALYSIS 9.3; X-RAY FLUORESCENCE 9.6; MASS SPECTROMETRY 9.7; CONVENTIONS IN REPORTING CHEMICAL ANALYSES 9.8; CONVERSION OF CHEMICAL ANALYSES TO STRUCTURAL FORMULAS 9.11; REFERENCES CITED AND SUGGESTIONS FOR ADDITIONAL READING 9.15; INTRODUCTION 10.2; MINERAL IDENTIFICATION TACTICS 10.3; MINERAL SEPARATION 10.3; HAND SAMPLE IDENTIFICATION 10.8; THIN SECTION IDENTIFICATION 10.10; GRAIN MOUNT IDENTIFICATION 10.12; POLISHED SECTION IDENTIFICATION 10.13; X-RAY DIFFRACTION 10.13; MINERAL ASSOCIATION 10.14; PROBLEMS IN PARADISE 10.15; REFERENCES CITED AND SUGGESTIONS FOR ADDITIONAL READING 10.17; INDEX 10.20; SECTION III: MINERAL DESCRIPTIONS; INTRODUCTION 11.2; SILICATE STRUCTURE AND CLASSIFICATION 11.3; MAFIC VS. FELSIC 11.5; IGNEOUS ROCKS 11.6; MAGMATIC PROCESSES 11.11; IGNEOUS ENVIRONMENTS 11.14; TERRIGENOUS SEDIMENTARY ROCKS 11.17; SEDIMENTARY PROCESSES 11.19; SEDIMENTARY ENVIRONMENTS 11.24; METAMORPHIC ROCKS 11.27; METAMORPHIC VARIABLES 11.28; METAMORPHIC PROCESSES 11.31; METAMORPHIC GRADE, FACIES, MINERAL ZONE BOUNDARIES AND ISOGRADS 11.34; MAJOR COMPOSITIONAL GROUPS OF METAMORPHIC ROCKS 11.36; METAMORPHIC ENVIRONMENTS 11.39; REFERENCES CITED AND SUGGESTIONS FOR ADDITIONAL READING 11.43; INTRODUCTION 12.2; SILICA GROUP 12.3; QUARTZ 12.5; TRIDYMITE 12.13; CRISTOBALITE 12.17; FELDSPAR GROUP 12.21; COMPOSITION 12.21; STRUCTURE 12.22; AL/SI ORDER/DISORDER 12.23; EXSOLUTION IN THE FELDSPARS 12.29; OTHER FELDSPAR INTERGROWTHS 12.31; TWINNING 12.33; PLAGIOCLASE 12.35; K-FELDSPAR 12.48; FELDSPATHOIDS 12.61; NEPHELINE 12.61; LEUCITE 12.66; SODALITE 12.69; ZEOLITE GROUP 12.72; SCAPOLITE 12.80; REFERENCES CITED AND SUGGESTIONS FOR ADDITIONAL READING 12.84; INTRODUCTION 13.2; STRUCTURE AND CLASSIFICATION 13.2; 1:1 LAYER SILICATES 13.6; 2:1 LAYER SILICATES 13.6; POLYTYPISM 13.9; TO STRUCTURES (1:1) 13.10; SERPENTINE (ANTIGORITE, CHRYSOTILE, LIZARDITE) 13.10; KAOLINITE: 13.17; TOT STRUCTURES (2:1) 13.18; TALC 13.18; PYROPHYLLITE 13.21; TOT + C STRUCTURES: MICA MINERALS (2:1) 13.24; MUSCOVITE 13.24; BIOTITE 13.30; GLAUCONITE 13.34; TOT + C STRUCTURES: BRITTLE MICAS (2:1) 13.38; MARGARITE 13.38; CLINTONITE 13.40; TOT + O STRUCTURE 13.43; CHLORITE 13.43; CLAY MINERALS 13.47; STRUCTURE AND CLASSIFICATION 13.50; GEOLOGY OF CLAY 13.54; IDENTIFICATION 13.55; USES 13.57; CLAY IN THE ENVIRONMENT 13.58; OTHER SHEET SILICATES 13.60; STILPNOMELANE 13.60; PREHNITE 13.63; INTRODUCTION 14.2; PYROXENE GROUP 14.2; STRUCTURE AND CLASSIFICATION 14.2; GEOLOGY OF PYROXENES 14.5; ORTHOPYROXENE 14.9; LO-CA CLINOPYROXENE 14.13; CALCIC CLINOPYROXENE 14.16; AEGIRINE (ACMITE), AEGIRINE-AUGITE 14.21; JADEITE 14.25; OMPHACITE 14.28; SPODUMENE 14.31; PYROXENOID GROUP 14.34; INTRODUCTION 14.34; WOLLASTONITE 14.35; RHODONITE 14.38; PECTOLITE 14.40; AMPHIBOLE GROUP 14.43; STRUCTURE AND CLASSIFICATION 14.43; GEOLOGY OF AMPHIBOLES 14.47; ORTHOAMPHIBOLE 14.48; CUMMINGTONITE-GRUNERITE 14.52; TREMOLITE - FERRO-ACTINOLITE 14.56; HORNBLENDE 14.59; GLAUCOPHANE - RIEBECKITE 14.64; OTHER AMPHIBOLES 14.68; REFERENCES CITED AND SUGGESTIONS FOR ADDITIONAL READING 14.70; DISILICATES 15.2; STRUCTURE & CLASSIFICATION 15.2; ZOISITE 15.4; CLINOZOISITE-EPIDOTE 15.7; ALLANITE 15.11; LAWSONITE 15.14; PUMPELLYITE 15.17; RING SILICATES 15.20; STRUCTURE & CLASSIFICATION 15.21; BERYL 15.21; CORDIERITE 15.25; TOURMALINE 15.29; REFERENCES CITED AND SUGGESTIONS FOR ADDITIONAL READING 15.35; INTRODUCTION 16.2; OLIVINE GROUP 16.3; GARNET GROUP 16.10; ZIRCON 16.15; ALUMINUM SILICATES 16.20; ANDALUSITE 16.24; SILLIMANITE 16.28; KYANITE 16.30; STAUROLITE 16.34; CHLORITOID 16.38; TITANITE 16.42; TOPAZ 16.46; REFERENCES CITED AND SUGGESTIONS FOR ADDITIONAL READING 16.50; STRUCTURE AND CLASSIFICATION 17.2; CARBONATES 17.3; RHOMBOHEDRAL CARBONATES (CALCITE AND DOLOMITE GROUPS) 17.3; CALCITE 17.6; MAGNESITE 17.12; SIDERITE 17.15; RHODOCHROSITE 17.18; DOLOMITE-ANKERITE 17.21; ARAGONITE GROUP 17.26; ARAGONITE 17.26; WITHERITE 17.30; STRONTIANITE 17.32; OH-BEARING CARBONATES 17.35; MALACHITE 17.36; AZURITE 17.38; SULFATES 17.41; GYPSUM 17.42; ANHYDRITE 17.46; BARITE 17.49; PHOSPHATES 17.53; APATITE 17.54; MONAZITE 17.59; XENOTIME 17.62; TOURQUOISE 17.65; TUNGSTATES AND MOLYBDATES 17.68; BORATES 17.70; REFERENCES CITED AND SUGGESTIONS FOR ADDITIONAL READING 17.72; INTRODUCTION 18.2; OXIDES 18.2; X2O GROUP 18.3; CUPRITE 18.3; ICE 18.6; XO GROUP 18.8; XY2O4 MINERALS 18.9; SPINEL GROUP 18.9; MAGNETITE 18.11; CHROMITE 18.16; SPINEL SERIES 18.18; CHRYSOBERYL 18.21; X2O3 GROUP 18.23; HEMATITE 18.24; CORUNDUM 18.27; ILMENITE 18.31; XO2 GROUP 18.34; RUTILE 18.35; CASSITERITE 18.38; URANINITE 18.41; HYDROXIDES 18.43; BRUCITE 18.45; IRON HYDROXIDE MINERALS 18.47; ALUMINUM HYDROXIDE MINERALS 18.48; MANGANESE OXIDE AND HYDROXIDE MINERALS 18.50; HALIDES 18.53; HALITE 18.53; SYLVITE 18.56; FLUORITE 18.59; REFERENCES CITED AND SUGGESTIONS FOR ADDITIONAL READING 18.62; INTRODUCTION 19.2; CRYSTAL CHEMISTRY & CLASSIFICATION 19.2; SULFIDE PARAGENESIS 19.4; HYDROTHERMAL DEPOSITS 19.4; SUPERGENE PROCESSES 19.8; SULFIDE MINERALS 19.10; SPHALERITE 19.11; GALENA 19.14; PYRRHOTITE 19.16; CHALCOPYRITE 19.19; CINNABAR 19.22; PYRITE 19.25; MARCASITE 19.29; MOLYBDENITE 19.31; BORNITE 19.34; CHALCOCITE 19.36; COVELLITE 19.38; SULFARSENIDES 19.41; ARSENOPYRITE 19.41; ARSENIDES 19.43; TELLURIDES 19.44; REFERENCES CITED AND SUGGESTIONS FOR ADDITIONAL READING 19.45; INTRODUCTION 20.2; METALS 20.2; GOLD 20.4; SILVER 20.7; COPPER 20.9; SEMIMETALS 20.11; NONMETALS 20.11; SULFUR 20.11; GRAPHITE 20.16; DIAMOND 20.18; REFERENCES CITED AND SUGGESTIONS FOR READING 20.22; APPENDICES; APPENDIX A. EFFECTIVE IONIC RADII OF THE ELEMENTS; APPENDIX B. DETERMINATIVE TABLES; TABLE B.1. NON-METALLIC MINERALS WITH WHITE, GRAY, OR OTHER PALE COLORED STREAK; TABLE B.2. NON-METALLIC MINERALS WITH DISTINCTLY COLORED STREAK; TABLE B.3. MINERALS WITH METALLIC AND SUBMETALLIC LUSTER; TABLE B.4. SPECIFIC GRAVITY; TABLE B.5. MINERALS THAT MAY FLUORESCE; TABLE B.6. COLOR OF MINERALS IN THIN SECTION AND GRAIN MOUNT; TABLE B.7. INDICES OF REFRACTION OF ISOTROPIC MINERALS; TABLE B.8. INDICES OF REFRACTION OF UNIAXIAL MINERALS; TABLE B9. INDICES OF REFRACTION OF BIAXIAL NEGATIVE MINERALS ARRANGED IN ORDER OF INCREASING N?; TABLE B.10. INDICES OF REFRACTION OF BIAXIAL POSITIVE MINERALS ARRANGED IN ORDER OF INCREASING N?; TABLE B.11. MINERALS THAT PRODUCE PLEOCHROIC HALOS IN SURROUNDING MINERALS; TABLE B.12. COLORS EXHIBITED BY OPAQUE MINERALS IN POLISHED SECTION VIEWED IN AIR; TABLE B.13. OPAQUE OR NEARLY OPAQUE MINERALS THAT DISPLAY INTERNAL REFLECTIONS WITH REFLECTED LIGHT; APPENDIX C. MINERAL ASSOCIATIONS; TABLE C1. MINERALOGY OF COMMON IGNEOUS ROCKS; TABLE C2. MINERALOGY OF SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; TABLE C3. MINERALOGY OF COMMON METAMORPHIC ROCKS; TABLE C4. MINERALOGY OF HYDROTHERMAL SULFIDE DEPOSITS