However, the methodology needs adapting to the mineralogy of a planet, the surface of which is dominated by volcanogenic detritus.
All aspects are covered: mineralogy, major- and trace-element compositions, and isotope (radiogenic and stable) geochemistry.
Geochemistry and mineralogy of soils eaten by humans.
Between these bands are coarser-grained material (1-2 mm grain size) with similar mineralogy, but a higher modal plagioclase content.
Among the chapters are such aspects as precipitation mechanisms, classification, chemistry, mineralogy, stable isotopes, associated organisms, and depositional processes.
There are also appendices containing determinative tables for handspecimen identification, determinative tables for optical mineralogy and a glossary.
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.
Their concentrations are only partly coupled to the clay mineralogy.
