The Modern Crystallography: Is It Useful for the Earth’s Sciences?

Formed in XVII century at the junction between mineralogy and mathematics subsequently crystallography is considered as the science which is closer to physics, chemistry, biology and even to medicine. Due to this fact, the community, associated with the Earth’s sciences, accepts it with some restraint. The importance of the most advanced crystallographic approaches, the results obtained and the new insights which contribute the further development of the new scientific ideas about the composition and the structure of the Earth and some terrestrial planets are considered.