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Chemical Petrology: with applications to The Terrestrial Planets and Meteorites
Mueller, R. F.; Saxena, S. K.
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paperback. Num Pages: 394 pages, biography. BIC Classification: RBGK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 280 x 210 x 21. Weight in Grams: 1011.
Chemical petrology is essentially the physical chemistry of rocks and associated fluids, although it also borrows heavily from such other sciences as mineralogy. In terms of fundamentals it is firmly grounded in chemical thermodynamics and kinetics. In its treatment of terrestrial environments it grades imperceptably into sedimentology, geochemistry, and geophysics and in extraterrestrial environments into cosmochemistry. It is one of the most important branches of planetology and meteoritics. The unity of approach of thermodynamics and kinetics to processes in these diverse environments is stressed in this book by numerous examples which have been chosen to illuminate different aspects of the ... Read more
Chemical petrology is essentially the physical chemistry of rocks and associated fluids, although it also borrows heavily from such other sciences as mineralogy. In terms of fundamentals it is firmly grounded in chemical thermodynamics and kinetics. In its treatment of terrestrial environments it grades imperceptably into sedimentology, geochemistry, and geophysics and in extraterrestrial environments into cosmochemistry. It is one of the most important branches of planetology and meteoritics. The unity of approach of thermodynamics and kinetics to processes in these diverse environments is stressed in this book by numerous examples which have been chosen to illuminate different aspects of the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Springer United States
Number of pages
394
Condition
New
Number of Pages
394
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781461298915
SKU
V9781461298915
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