Affiliation:
1. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, California 90007, U.S.A.
Abstract
Abstract
In this issue
In this series of New Mineral Names, a thematic approach is used to help provide context for advances and discoveries in mineralogy. Planet Earth is ever-changing, and unique crystals are found in the tiniest of micro-geologic niches. With emerging analytical techniques, the formerly inaccessible becomes accessible. New minerals inspire creative approaches to overcoming chemical and technological challenges and can reveal what the Earth was like billions of years ago. In this issue, we look at recently described minerals that are associated with diamonds, dumps, and fumaroles: crowningshieldite, goldschmidtite, breyite, cardite, grimmite, hrabákite, freitalite, dioskouriite, dobrovolskyite, ferroefremovite, and vasilseverginite.
Publisher
Mineralogical Society of America
Subject
Geochemistry and Petrology,Geophysics