Mineralogy


Mineralogy includes various classes of minerals, which are roughly grouped by chemical composition.	Sapience Home Site Map About Sapience Science Earth Science Geology

Mineralogy includes various classes of minerals, which are roughly grouped by chemical composition.

Silicate minerals

The silicate minerals are by far the most abundant types of minerals. These are grouped by their crustal structure and include the Nesosilicates or orthosilicates (isolated), the sorosilicates (doubled), cyclosilicates, (cycles), inosilicates (chainlike, such as asbestos) phylosilicates (sheet silicates, including the micas) and tectosilicates (framework silicates)

Carbonate minerals

Sulfate minerals

Halide minerals

Oxide minerals

Sulfide minerals

Phosphate minerals

Element minerals

Organic minerals


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This depends heavily on other sciences. Biology has some connections and applications. These studies depend weakly on petrology and landforms, and also plate tectonics and interior geology. Hydrospheric science, atmospheric science, physical geography, and geohistory are also involved. Astronomy including cosmology and galactic astronomy may be of some use. Stellar astronomy seems less directly useful. Solar aystem astronomy can be connected. Solar system astronomy, the sun, planetary systems, minor bodies, and the interplanetary medium can be considered. The connection of chemistry to minerals including chemical systems, chemical changes, and chemical substances can be considered. Physics including mechanics, thermodynamics, electromagnetism, relativity, quantum physics, and the structure of matter is useful.

The connections and applications of history, sociology, institutions, culture, anthropology, and personal studies will also be developed.

This depends heavily on other sciences.

Biology has some connections and applications.

These studies depend weakly on petrology and landforms, and also plate tectonics and interior geology. Hydrospheric science, atmospheric science, physical geography, and geohistory are also involved.

Astronomy including cosmology and galactic astronomy may be of some use. Stellar astronomy seems less directly useful. Solar aystem astronomy can be connected. Solar system astronomy, the sun, planetary systems, minor bodies, and the interplanetary medium can be considered.

The connection of chemistry to minerals including chemical systems, chemical changes, and chemical substances can be considered. Physics including mechanics, thermodynamics, electromagnetism, relativity, quantum physics, and the structure of matter is useful.