Geochemistry and mineralogy of rare earth elements / Геохимия и минералогия редкоземельных элементов

The authors of this volume presented a short course on the rare earth elements to about 80 participants in San Francisco, California, December 1-3, 1989, just prior to the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union. This was the nineteenth in a series of short courses that the Mineralogical Society of America (MSA) began sponsoring in 1974. It was the brain-child of Robert Hazen and David Stewart, and the latter was the agent who recruited Bruce Lipin (and later, Gordon McKay) to undertake this monumental work. This book joins a long list of Reviews in Mineralogy (see opposite page for details) that MSA has made available to the scientific community at reasonable cost. The editors and authors thank Mrs. Marianne Stern and Mrs. Margie Sentelle at Virginia Tech for their tireless efforts (under considerable pressure) in preparation of camera-ready copy for this volume. We also thank Mr. Todd N. Solberg for helping with word-processing problems on the computer. <...>