Guide To Minerals Rocks Fossils

Cambridge Guide to Minerals, Rocks and Fossils

Provides information on how rocks and fossils are formed and where they can be found and offers advice on which ones to collect and how to display them.

The Larousse Guide to Minerals, Rocks, and Fossils

Guide to Minerals, Rocks & Fossils

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: color and transparency grain size hardness structure occurrence mineralogy distinguishing features habit cleavage texture alteration luster 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.