Rocks, gems, and minerals a guide to familiar minerals, gems, ores, and rocks
Includes information on collecting and identifying minerals, and sections on metallic, nonmetallic, gem and rock-forming minerals, and on igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks.
Main Author: | Zim, Herbert S. 1909-1994. |
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Other Authors: | Shaffer, Paul R. 1910-, Perlman, Raymond (Illustrator) |
Format: | Books Print Book |
Language: | English |
Published: |
New York :
St. Martin's Press,
c2001.
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Edition: | Rev. and updated / |
Series: |
Golden guide
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Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Seeing the Earth and its rocks
- Activities for amateurs
- Identifying minerals
- Metallic minerals
- Nonmetallic minerals
- Gem minerals
- Rock-forming minerals
- Igneous rocks
- Sedimentary rocks
- Metamorphic rocks
- Rocks in daily use.