Minerals and Reactions at the Atomic Scale: Transmission Electron Microscopy
Edited by Peter R. Buseck
This book provides a background to the transmission electron microscope (TEM) as a mineralogical tool, gives an introduction to the principles underlying its operation, and explores mineralogical applications and ways in which electron microscopy can augment our knowledge of mineral structures, chemistry, and origin. Much emphasis is devoted to mineralogical applications, with the aim to provide sufficient information to allow mineralogists and petrologists to have an informed understanding of the data produced by the TEM and to have enough knowledge and experience to undertake studies on their own.
The opening chapters cover the principles of electron microscopy and chemical analysis using the TEM, and the remaining chapters consider mineralogical, petrological, and geochemical applications and their implications for both low- and high-temperature geological environments.
Bio
<p class="i1">Buseck, an ASU Regents' Professor, is known for his research in solid state geochemistry and mineralogy, geochemistry and cosmochemistry, and atmospheric geochemistry. He has pioneered in the use of transmission electron microscopy to study minerals, meteorites and aerosol particles at close to the atomic scale.
