Kimberlites, Orangeites, Lamproites, Melilitites, and Minettes: A PETROGRAPHIC ATLAS . by Roger Mitchell

This volume, a comprehensive guide to the petrography of diamond-bearing and related rocks, is an essential reference for geologists involved with exploration for diamonds, and is invaluable for all petrologists interested in alkaline igneous rock petrography. 243 pp. ISBN 0-88663-026-6 $100

PEROVSKITES: Modern and Ancient.  by Roger Mitchell

This volume is intended as an introduction for the neophyte to the structure and compositional variation found in perovskite-group and related compounds, will be of interest to solid state chemists, materials scientists, crystallographers, and mineralogists. The work does not describe the magnetic, electrical or other physical properties of perovskite-group compounds. 318 pp. ISBN 0-9686411-0-9 $70

• Chapter 1. The ideal perovskite structure: Pm3m perovskites and related structures.
• Chapter 2. Distorted ABX3 perovskites: geometric and structural principles.
• Chapter 3. Stoichiometric ternary perovskites: structural diversity.
• Chapter 4. Ordered perovskites.
• Chapter 5. Non-stoichiometric perovskites: A-site vacant and oxygen defect structures.
• Chapter 6. Hexagonal perovskites and related structures.
• Chapter 7. Layered perovskites-I: Ruddlesden-Popper, Dion-Jacobson, Aurivillius and AnBnX3n+2 compounds.
• Chapter 8. Layered perovskites-II: High temperature superconducting cuprates and organic-inorganic halide perovskites.
• Chapter 9. High pressure silicate and titanate perovskites and related structures.
• Chapter 10. Naturally-occurring perovskites.