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In her insightful foreword to this volume

Elizabeth von Arnim's brilliant

Minerals - A Very Short Introduction " Sådan sagde Pia TafdrupsMinerals existed long before any forms of life, playing a key role in the origin and evolution of life; an interaction with biological systems that we are only now beginning to understand. Exploring the traditional strand of mineralogy, which emphasises the important mineral families, the well established analytical methods (optical microscopy and X ray diffraction) and the dramatic developments made in techniques over recent decades, David Vaughan