A detailed and extensively illustrated handbook.
The colors, shapes and properties of minerals vary from the bland to the magnificent. Guide to Minerals, Rocks and Fossils is a practical and authoritative handbook that is both comprehensive and easy to use.
Each of the 600 specimens is shown in full color, sometimes in two or more forms. There are also drawings that show the structure of the crystalline specimens. It covers the basics like granite, as well as oddities like meteorites and tektites.
Fossils include sponges, corals, arthropods, brachiopods, and fossil land plants.
Each is described in detail, with notes on:
Mineral names, chemical formulae and structural data accord to international standards. This is a very complete, but attractive and useful volume in a respected series.
Show moreA detailed and extensively illustrated handbook.
The colors, shapes and properties of minerals vary from the bland to the magnificent. Guide to Minerals, Rocks and Fossils is a practical and authoritative handbook that is both comprehensive and easy to use.
Each of the 600 specimens is shown in full color, sometimes in two or more forms. There are also drawings that show the structure of the crystalline specimens. It covers the basics like granite, as well as oddities like meteorites and tektites.
Fossils include sponges, corals, arthropods, brachiopods, and fossil land plants.
Each is described in detail, with notes on:
Mineral names, chemical formulae and structural data accord to international standards. This is a very complete, but attractive and useful volume in a respected series.
Show moreThe authors are researchers in the mineralogy and palaeontology departments of the Natural History Museumin London.
As a most useful field guide for explorers or as a straightforward,
beautifully illustrated and written general reference, this book is
unparalleled. Summing Up: Essential.--T.L.T. Grose "Choice"
(10/1/2005 12:00:00 AM)
If you are looking for a good book on minerals, rocks and fossils
this "new edition" which has been "revised, updated and redesigned,
and includes new extended introductory sections and appendices" is
a good one. There are over 600 specimens in colour along with over
300 line drawings. The book is divided into sections on minerals,
rocks and fossils. Minerals featured include native elements,
carbonates, nitrates and borates, silicates and many others. The
rocks covered are igneous rocks, metamorphic rocks, sedimentary
rocks and meteorites and tektites. Fossils include sponges, corals,
mollusks, arthropods, graptolites and others. Informative text
accompanies the quality photographs and line drawings. Nice
reference book.-- "parrysound.com" (3/19/2014 12:00:00 AM)
In-depth descriptions and color photos... useful for amateur
geologists, rock and fossil collectors, and specialists in these
areas.-- "Science News" (8/13/2005 12:00:00 AM)
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