Publication: Needs and opportunities in mineral evolution research
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2011
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Hazen, R. M., A. Bekker, D. L. Bish, W. Bleeker, R. T. Downs, J. Farquhar, J. M. Ferry, et al. 2011. “Needs and Opportunities in Mineral Evolution Research.” American Mineralogist 96, no. 7: 953–963.
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Progress in understanding mineral evolution, Earth’s changing near-surface mineralogy through time, depends on the availability of detailed information on mineral localities of known ages and geologic settings. A comprehensive database including this information, employing the mindat.org web site as a platform, is now being implemented. This resource will incorporate software to correlate a range of mineral occurrences and properties vs. time, and it will thus facilitate studies of the chang- ing diversity, distribution, associations, and characteristics of individual minerals as well as mineral groups. The Mineral Evolution Database thus holds the prospect of revealing mineralogical records of important geophysical, geochemical, and biological events in Earth history.
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Philosophy of mineralogy, database, isotope geochemistry, origins of life, mineral data
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