Volume 62 of Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry reviews the recent research in the geochemistry and mineral physics of hydrogen in the principal mineral phases of the Earth's crust and mantle.

Contents:
Analytical Methods for Measuring Water in Nominally Anhydrous Minerals
The Structure of Hydrous Species in Nominally Anhydrous Minerals: Information from Polarized IR Spectroscopy
Structural Studies of OH in Nominally Anhydrous Minerals Using NMR
Atomistic Models of OH Defects in Nominally Anhydrous Minerals
Hydrogen in High Pressure Silicate and Oxide Mineral Structures
Water in Nominally Anhydrous Crustal Minerals: Speciation, Concentration, and Geologic Significance
Water in Natural Mantle Minerals I: Pyroxenes
Water in Natural Mantle Minerals II: Olivine, Garnet and Accessory Minerals
Thermodynamics of Water Solubility and Partitioning
The Partitioning of Water Between Nominally Anhydrous Minerals and Silicate Melts
The Stability of Hydrous Mantle Phases
Hydrous Phases and Water Transport in the Subducting Slab
Diffusion of Hydrogen in Minerals
Effect of Water on the Equation of State of Nominally Anhydrous Minerals
Remote Sensing of Hydrogen in Earth's Mantle

Autorentext

Hans Keppler, Bayreuth, Germany and Joseph R. Smyth, Boulder, Colorado, USA.