Major and trace elements showed a diversity of composition, controlled by the mineralogy.
While the cur rent volume is primarily aimed at materials sciences, the methods are equally applicable to problems in mineralogy and petrology.
The lamprophyres may be classified as spessartites and minettes on the base of their mineralogy.
Based on the martian mineralogy and geochemistry a suite of possible reactants and products was created.
The chapter presents case studies of different types of alteration, and discusses detailed mineralogy of selected clay mineral types.
Their concentrations are only partly coupled to the clay mineralogy.
Evaporites are classified as primary, secondary and tertiary, 'secondary' corresponding to diagenetic (including sabkha textures and mineralogies) and 'tertiary' to evaporites in the exhumation stage.
There are also appendices containing determinative tables for handspecimen identification, determinative tables for optical mineralogy and a glossary.
