Highlights in Mineralogical Crystallography

"Highlights in Mineralogical Crystallography" presents a collection of review articles with the common topic: structural properties of minerals and synthetic analogues. It is a valuable resource for mineralogists, materials scientists, crystallographers, and earth scientists. This book includes:

• An introduction to the RRUFF database for structural, spectroscopic, and chemical mineral identification.
• A systematic evaluation of structural complexity of minerals.
• ab initio computer modelling of mineral surfaces.
• Natural quasicrystals of meteoritic origin.
• The potential role of terrestrial ringwoodite on the water content of the Earth''s mantle.
• Structural characterization of nanocrystalline bio-related minerals by electron-diffraction tomography.
• The uniqueness of mayenite-type compounds as minerals and high-tech ceramics.