Table of Contents:
  • Spectroscopic characterization of minerals and their surfaces : an overview / Lelia M. Coyne and Stephen W.S. McKeever
  • Thin-film elemental analyses for precise characterization of minerals / Ian D.R. Mackinnon
  • Electron energy-loss spectroscopy : fundamentals and applications in the characterization of minerals / Kannan M. Krishnan
  • High-resolution transmission electron microscopy applied to clay minerals / George D. Guthrie, Jr. and David R. Veblen
  • Skeletal versus nonbiogenic carbonates : UV-visible-near IR (0.3-2.7-[micrometer]) reflectance properties / Susan J. Gaffey
  • Photoluminescence, candoluminescence, and radical recombination luminescence of minerals / William B. White
  • Laser-excited rare earth luminescence as a probe of mineral characteristics / J.C. Wright
  • Mineralogy of meteorites revealed by cathodoluminescence / Ian M. Steele
  • Energy-storage mechanisms and thermoluminescence processes in minerals / Stephen W.S. McKeever
  • Three-dimensional thermoluminescence spectroscopy of minerals / John R. Prescott, Riaz A. Akber, and R.K. Gartia
  • Induced thermoluminescence and cathodoluminescence studies of meteorites : relevance to structure and active sites in feldspar / Derek W.G. Sears, John M. DeHart, Fouad A. Hasan, and Gary E. Lofgren
  • Emission of particles and photons from the fracture of minerals and inorganic materials / S.C. Langford and J.T. Dickinson
  • What excites triboluminescence? / Linda M. Sweeting
  • ⁵⁷Fe-bearing oxide, silicate, and aluminosilicate minerals : crystal structure trends in Mössbauer spectra / Roger G. Burns and Teresa C. Solberg
  • Crystal chemistry, electronic structures, and spectra of Fe sites in clay minerals : applications to photochemistry and electron transport / David M. Sherman
  • Dissociation and recombination of positive holes in minerals / Friedemann Freund, François Batllo, and Minora M. Freund
  • Variable oxidation states of iron in the crystal structure of smectite clay minerals / Joseph W. Stucki and Paul R. Lear
  • Surface activities of clays / Jose J. Fripiat
  • Probing the surface of clays in aqueous suspension by fluorescence spectroscopy of proflavine / Jos Cenens, Robert A. Schoonheydt, and Frans C. De Schryver
  • Multinuclear magnetic resonance studies of structure and dynamics at the interface of clay materials / Jean Grandjean and Pierre Laszlo
  • Near-infrared correlation spectroscopy : quantifying iron and surface water in a series of variably cation-exchanged montmorillonite clays / Lelia M. Coyne, J.L. Bishop, T. Scattergood, A. Banin, G. Carle, and J. Orenberg
  • Raman and FT-IR spectra of the kaolinite-hydrazine intercalate / Clifford T. Johnston
  • Reactive Cr-O sites : catalytic properties of chromia-pillared montmorillonite and preliminary study results / Ahmad Moini, Thomas D. Brewer, Ming-Shin Tzou, Steven D. Landau, Boon-Keng Teo, and Thomas J. Pinnavaia.