Hi Matt
I like a lot Rudy Wenk and Andrey Bulakh book on mineralogy
https://www.amazon.de/gp/aw/d/1107514045/ref=mp_s_a_1_fkmr0_1?__mk_de_DE=ÅMÅZÕÑ&qid=1523770779&sr=8-1-fkmr0&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=rudy+wenk+minerals
It has a little bit of everything, from crystallography to phyiscal properties to even a very interesting chapter of applied mindralogy, for example, mineral deposits, cement, et. Also includes thermodynamics of mineral formation. Of course, if you need more details in certain aspects, you will need other books. Andrew Putnis‘ book entitled Introduction to Mineral Sciences is really good, but more focused on the structure of minerals and thermodynamics, covering also some basics on didfraction, spectroscopy, and verz good chapter on szmmetry of crystal systems. If you want more physical properties of minerals, tensors and more mathematical approach, you will like Nye’s classical book
https://www.amazon.de/gp/aw/d/0198511655/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?__mk_de_DE=ÅMÅZÕÑ&qid=1523771730&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=physical+properties+crystals&dpPl=1&dpID=41MoIC%2BSwDL&ref=plSrch
But i guess this is beyond what you are looking for.
Best
Lui
Luiz F. G. Morales
ScopeM - ETH Zürich
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> On 15 Apr 2018, at 02:13, Matt Kohn <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Hi folks,
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> Does anyone have a recommendation for an Earth Materials textbook?
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> We’ve used Hefferan and O’Brien (Earth Materials) which I feel pretty ambivalent about.
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> Any opinions on Klein and Philpotts (Earth Materials: Introduction to Mineralogy and Petrology)?
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> Or on Raymond and Johnson (Crustal Earth Materials)?
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Thanks for your thoughts,
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> Matt
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