Mottana, A., Sassi, F.P., Thompson, J.B., Jr. & Guggenheim, S. (Eds) Micas: Crystal Chemistry and Metamorphic Petrology.: Washington, D.C. (Mineralogical Society of America, Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry, 46), 2002. xiii + 499 pp. Price US$32 for non-members, US$24 for members, ISBN 0 939950 58 8.

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This book is another in the series of Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry and is published by the Mineralogical Society of America in partnership with Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. It is an update and expansion of the relevant sections of Reviews in Mineralogy, v. 13 , Micas, which was published in 1984 and quickly became the authoritative quick reference for micas and the platform for further research on these important rock-forming minerals. There has been a rapid expansion in the literature on micas in the eighteen-year interval between the publication of volumes 13 and 46 . Micas continue to have important roles in frontier areas of the earth sciences, particularly in quantification of metamorphic petrology, ultra-high pressure metamorphism, igneous processes in crustal and mantle tectonics, granite petrogenesis, redox equilibria, rock weathering, rock–fluid interaction, radiometric age dating of rocks and rock events, mechanical properties of rocks, and exotic element geochemistry. A recent landmark in mica mineralogy was the report and revised classification scheme …