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Delvigne, J.E. Atlas of Micromorphology of Mineral Alteration and Weathering.

The Canadian Mineralogist, Special Publication 3, 1998, xvi + 495 pp. Price (hardback) $125 (US) $170 (CDN). ISBN 0-921294-43-3.

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This book is published by the Mineralogical Association of Canada in collaboration with ORSTOM (Office de la Recherche Scientifique et Technique Outre-Mer). It is thus fitting that Prof. R.F. Martin, editor of Canadian Mineralogist, should write a ‘Preamble’, in which he notes that this book forms a bridge between the fields of classical mineralogy and soil science. Because of the much increased interest in ‘the environment’, this cross-fertilization of ideas is becoming more necessary than ever. This is very much a book on the weathering of igneous and metamorphic rocks in tropical climates which the author has studied since 1956.

The text is divided into four parts: 1 – General Concepts; 2 – Patterns of Weathering; 3 – Alteromorphs; and 4 – Lithorelics, Alterorelics, Nodules, Pisoliths. The book is thus organized . . . [Full Text of this Article]