"This book is dedicated to people who pick up rocks and stop to think" *

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Notes on differentiation, properties of the elements, their geochemical classification, Pauling's rules for the formation of ionic crystals, Goldschmidt's rules for element substitution, and some astonishingly broad conclusions about Earth history from a few simple rare-earth-element measurements are here (MS Word file), or here, if you'd prefer pdf format.