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Nature Guide: Rocks and Minerals

Author: DK

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2012-06-18

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 1465403523

Did you know culinary salt is the mineral halite? Or that the pigment vermillion is powdered cinnabar, a mineral whose name comes from the Persian for "dragon's blood"? Discover the extraordinary mineral treasures that form our planet and that today we use in everything, from makeup and cookery to agriculture and high-tech. Nature Guide Rocks and Minerals is your essential collector's companion, with illustrated entries on hundreds of minerals, gems, and rocks from actinium to zirconium. Its breathtaking array includes organic minerals, such as pearls and corals, as well as silicates and "native elements" like gold. Browse to find wonderful gems, including opals, or pyropes - a deep-red garnet the size of a hen's egg. Nature Guide Rocks and Minerals reveals each mineral's defining characteristics and explains how and where they were formed, how they were first identified, their uses, and their chemical composition. Whether you are a geology student or starting your own collection, this fact-packed book is both a fascinating read and an essential identification guide.

Rocks and Minerals

Author: Ra Bonewitz

Publisher: DK Nature Guide

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 9781405375863

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Minerals

Author: Hochleitner,

Publisher: Barron's Educational Series, Incorporated

Published: 1994-03

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13:

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This Barron's guide is a new kind of book for identifying minerals, one that even beginners can use to make quick, sure identifications. The simple, easy-to-understand profiles are supplemented by sketches of crystals made by the author especially for this book and based on the most up-to-date crystallographic data. It is a field guide to mineral deposits, categorized by color and degree of hardness for fast, easy identification.

A Field Guide to Rocks and Minerals

Author: Frederick H. Pough

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 558

ISBN-13: 9780395910962

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Describes hundreds of minerals and lists their geographic distribution, physical properties, chemical composition, and crystalline structure.

Rocks and Minerals

Author: Paul R. Shaffer

Publisher: Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press

Published: 1989-02-15

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780307244994

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Includes information on collecting and identifying minerals, and sections on metallic, nonmetallic, gem and rock-forming minerals, and on igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks.

Rocks and Minerals

Author: Nancy Honovich

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 1426323018

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"Find adventure! Go outside! Have fun! Be a rock hound!"--Cover.

National Audubon Society Field Guide to Rocks and Minerals

Author: Charles Wesley Chesterman

Publisher: Knopf

Published: 1978

Total Pages: 876

ISBN-13:

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My Awesome Field Guide to Rocks and Minerals

Author: Gary Lewis

Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.

Published: 2019-11-12

Total Pages: 379

ISBN-13: 1641528737

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Become a rock hound with this field guide for kids ages 7 to 10 The world of rocks and minerals is massive, amazing, and full of cool new things to uncover! My Awesome Field Guide to Rocks and Minerals teaches you the skills you need to collect, identify, and catalog your own treasures. Explore 150 different rocks and minerals, and get step-by-step guidelines for testing and identifying the ones you encounter out in the field. There's also plenty of notebook space so you can record data about your finds. So get out there, gather cool looking samples, and discover what they are! My Awesome Field Guide to Rocks and Minerals includes: An intro to earth science—Explore the layers of the earth, how rocks and minerals are formed, the periodic table, and more essential information for young scientists. Handy fact sheets—Learn more about all kinds of unique rocks and minerals with fact sheets that are conveniently organized to help with identification. A field notebook—Record all your rock-hunting sample data on pages that include cut-out numbers for cataloging. Identify and catalog rocks and minerals with this fascinating field guide that has everything you need to get started.