Introduction to Mineralogy 2nd Edition by William Nesse presents the important traditional content of mineralogy including crystallography, chemical bonding, controls on mineral structure, mineral stability, and crystal growth to provide a foundation that enables students to understand the nature and occurrence of minerals.
Physical, optical, and X-ray powder diffraction techniques of mineral study are described in detail, and common chemical analytical methods are outlined as well. Detailed descriptions of over 100 common minerals are provided, and the geologic context within which these minerals occur is emphasized. Appendices provide tables and diagrams to help students with mineral identification, using both physical and optical properties.
Numerous line drawings, photographs, and photomicrographs help make complex concepts understandable. This book consolidates much of the material now covered in traditional mineralogy and optical mineralogy courses and focuses on describing minerals within their geologic context.
The book begins with a short Introduction to the feldspars in general before launching into the chapter on Alkali Feldspars. At the beginning of the latter is the useful summary of optical properties, twin laws and crystallographic data that characterizes all the books in this series. The vast Structure section covers the structures per se, ordering, variations of cell parameters with P and T, spectroscopic studies and exsolution.
This last topic, among others, suffers from a great deal of repetition in the book: it is also covered in the Paragenesis section (in two places), in the Optical and Physical Properties section and under Experimental Work. More cross-referencing and/or rationalization would have been useful here. Short sections on Morphology and Twinning are followed by the Chemistry section, which begins with a description of the newer methods of chemical analysis and contains the familiar and invaluable tables of analyses.
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