Designed to be useful even after students have completed their formal optical mineralogy course, Optical Mineralogy covers advances in instrumentation and includes illustrations of minerals as seen through petrological microscopes. The initial chapters familiarize readers with essential concepts in optics and optical mineralogy and questions at the end of each chapter provide insight into issues students will find in the field. With tables that make important informations easily accessible, the book highlights the importance of optical mineralogy in the eliciting of information about the interior of crystals.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Pramod K Verma
Pramod Kumar Verma, a professor of Geology at the University of Delhi, received his Ph.D. in Geology from Harvard University, U.S.A. in 1973. Dr. Verma has taught undergraduate and graduate level courses in mineralogy and physical geochemistry during last four decades. He is primarily a metamorphic petrologist, but began his research in the regional geology of metamorphic rocks in the Eastern Himalayas. In addition to the Himalayas, his current interest is in the petrology of planetary interior. He has published several research articles in leading international journals, and edited two books on the Eastern Himalayan Geology. Prof. Verma has held visiting assignments in the USA, Germany and Zambia. He is a Fellow of the Mineralogical Society London. He has served as President of the Earth System Sciences Section of the Indian Science Congress and Vice President of the Indian Geological Congress.
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