000			01584nam a2200181Ia 4500
020			_a9780471721574(Hbk.)
082			_a549 KLE
100			_aKlein, C.
245		4	_aManual of Mineral Science (23rd ed.): (after James D. Dana) / _cC. Klein, B. Dutrow
250			_a23rd
260			_aNew Delhi: _bWiley, _cc2007.
300			_axxi, 675p.
504			_aIncludes Appendix (639-652) & Index (653-675)
520			_aFirst published in 1848, authored by J.D. Dana, the Manual of Mineral Science now enters its 23rd edition. This new edition continues in the footsteps or its predecessors as the standard textbook in Mineralogy/Mineral Science/Earth Materials/Rocks and Minerals courses. This new edition contains 22 chapters, instead of 14 as in the prior edition. This is the result of having packaged coherent subject matter into smaller, more easily accessible units. Each chapter has a new and expanded introductory statement, which gives the user a quick overview of what is to come. Just before these introductions, each chapter features a new illustration that highlights some aspect of the subject in that particular chapter. All such changes make the text more readable, user-friendly and searchable. Many of the first 14 chapters are reasonably independent of each other, allowing for great flexibility in an instructor's preferred subject sequence. The majority of illustrations in this edition were re-rendered and/or redesigned and many new photographs, mainly of mineral specimens, were added.
650			_aMineralogy
700			_aB. Dutrow
942			_cBK
999			_c2850 _d2850