Nature Guide: Rocks and Minerals

Author: DK
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1465403523
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 354

Book Description
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
ISBN: 9781405375863
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 352

Book Description
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A Field Guide to Rocks and Minerals

Author: Frederick H. Pough
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 440

Book Description
A guidebook to rocks and minerals.

Minerals

Author: Hochleitner,
Publisher: Barron's Educational Series, Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 252

Book Description
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
ISBN: 9780395910962
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 558

Book Description
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
ISBN: 9780307244994
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
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
ISBN: 1426323018
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164

Book Description
"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
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 876

Book Description
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Rocks and Minerals

Author: Steve Tomecek
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1426305389
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

Book Description
A survey of the earth's astounding variety of rocks and minerals and the fascinating ways people have transformed them into usable materials.

My Awesome Field Guide to Rocks and Minerals

Author: Gary Lewis
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1641528737
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 379

Book Description
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.