Hi folks,
Does anyone have a recommendation for an Earth Materials textbook?
We’ve used Hefferan and O’Brien (Earth Materials) which I feel pretty ambivalent about.
Any opinions on Klein and Philpotts (Earth Materials: Introduction to Mineralogy and Petrology)?
Or on Raymond and Johnson (Crustal Earth Materials)?
I tend to teach the class with a fairly heavy dose of mineralogy at the beginning, but drift off into petrology and various other topics like biomineralization, ore minerals, deep sea vent minerals, etc.
Because our majors go off into a variety of fields (a lot in Earth Science Ed and Hydrology, also Geophysics), I’d like to develop the class to be a little more applied than just metamorphic, sedimentary, and igneous petrology.
Thanks for your thoughts,
Matt
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