Publications
“Beautiful is what we see,
more beautiful, what we know,
but by far the most beautiful
is what we do not know”
- Nicolas Steno -
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Leung, D.D.V. & McDonald, A.M. (2022) Taking rocks for granite: An integrated mineralogical, textural, and petrographic study of curling stones used in international competition. The Canadian Mineralogist 60(1), 171–199. https://doi.org/10.3749/canmin.2100052
Leung, D.D. & McDonald, A.M. (2020) Windmountainite, â–¡Fe3+2Mg2â–¡2Si8O20(OH)2(H2O)4·4H2O, a new modulated, layered Fe3+-Mg-silicate-hydrate from Wind Mountain, New Mexico: Characterization and origin, with comments on the classification of palygorskite-group minerals. The Canadian Mineralogist 58(4), 477–509. https://doi.org/10.3749/canmin.1900063
Other Publications
Leung, D. (2021) Curling stones: Straight facts. Rockwatch Magazine 87, 12–13. Click here to view.
Leung, D.D.V. (2020) Where curling collides with rock physics: Characterising the damage evolution of curling stones. Unpublished MScR thesis, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
Leung, D. (2020) Curling stones: Taken for granite. Edinburgh Geologist 67, 13–16.
https://edinburghgeolsoc.org/eg_pdfs/edinburgh-geologist-67.pdf
Leung, D.D. (2019) Taking rocks for granite: An integrated mineralogical, textural, and petrographic baseline of curling stones used in international-level competition. Unpublished BSc thesis, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Canada.