Handbooks: Rocks and Minerals The Clearest Recognition Guide Available

Name: Handbooks: Rocks and Minerals The Clearest Recognition Guide Available
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ISBN: 9780789491060

ISBN-10: 0789491060

ISBN-13: 9780789491060

Edition: 2002

Authors: Chris Pellant, Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff

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Description:

DK's Smithsonian Handbook of Rocks and Minerals combines 600 vivid full-color photos with descriptions of more than 500 specimens. This authoritative, systematic, and clear photographic approach marks a new generation of identification guides. Book jacket.

Book details

List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/12/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Introduction


Collecting Rocks and Minerals


Field Equipment


Home Equipment


Organizing your Collection


How This Book Works


Mineral or Rock?


Mineral Formation


Mineral Composition


Mineral Characteristics


Mineral Identification


How Rocks are Formed


Igneous Rock Characteristics


Types of Metamorphism


Metamorphic Rock Characteristics


Sedimentary Rock Characteristics


Rock Identification Key


Minerals


Native Elements


Sulfides and Sulfosalts


Halides


Oxides and Hydroxides


Carbonates, Nitrates, and Borates


Sulfates, Chromates, Molybdates, and Tungstates


Phosphates, Arsenates, and Vanadates


Silicates


Rocks


Igneous Rocks


Metamorphic Rocks


Sedimentary Rocks


Glossary


Index


Acknowledgements