Quartz: Deposits, Mineralogy and Analytics - Götze, Jens.; Möckel, Robert; SpringerLink (Online service) (Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2012)
Classification, mineralogy and industrial potential of SiO2 minerals and rocks -- Assessment of High Purity Quartz Resources -- Quality requirements of quartz sand in the building industry.-Petrological and chemical characterisation of high-purity quartz deposits with examples from Norway -- Evaluation of the potential of the pegmatitic quartz veins of the Sierra de Comechigones (Argentina) as a source of high purity quartz by a combination of LA-ICP-MS, ICP, cathodoluminescence, gas chromatography, fluid inclusion analysis, Raman and FTIR spectroscopy -- Brazilian quartz deposits and a perspective about industrial use, gemstone and color treatment -- First-principles calculations of the E'1 center in quartz: Structural models, 29Si hyperfine parameters and association with Al impurity -- Gamma-Irradiation Dependency of EPR and TL-Spectra of Quartz -- Analysis of low element concentrations in quartz by electron microprobe.-In situ analysis of trace elements in quartz using laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry -- Cathodoluminescence microanalysis of the defect microstructures of bulk and nanoscale ultrapure SiO2 polymorphs for device applications -- Trace element characteristics, luminescence properties and real structure of quartz -- Mineralogy, geochemistry and cathodoluminescence of authigenic quartz from different sedimentary rocks -- CL textures and trace elements in hydrothermal quartz -- Quartz regeneration and the use of quartz as a carrier of genetic information.
Keywords: Mineralogy; Mineral resources; Geochemistry; Mineralogy; Mineral Resources; Geochemistry