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Rocks, Minerals and Gemstones Simon & Schuster's Guide to Rocks and Minerals, (Paperback)

Name: Rocks, Minerals and Gemstones Simon & Schuster's Guide to Rocks and Minerals, (Paperback)
Brand: Simon & Schuster
SKU: 1061194
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Comprehensive Guide: This paperback offers an extensive guide to rocks and minerals, featuring 377 detailed entries.
Visual Richness: The book is highly illustrated with over 1,000 images, including 600 in full color, enhancing identification.
Detailed Entries: Each entry provides practical information on appearance, classification, rarity, crystal formation, and mode of occurrence.
Technical Information: It includes specifics on mineral gravity, rock chemistry, modal classification fields, and formational environments.
Structural Organization: The guide is divided into two main sections, one for minerals and one for rocks, each with an introductory overview.
Publication Details: Published on November 15, 1978, this edition has a substantial page count of 607.

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Fiction/nonfiction
Non-Fiction
Genre
Travel & Nature
Pub date
1978-11-15
Pages
607
Reading level
Grade 10

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An easy to use field guide that contains everything rock and mineral enthusiasts need to know with more than 1,000 spectacular illustrations--600 in full color!

Practical, concise, and easy to use, Simon & Schuster's Guide to Rocks and Minerals contains everything that the rock and mineral enthusiast needs to know. This field guide is divided into two large sections--one devoted to minerals and one to rocks, each prefaced by a comprehensive introduction that discusses formation, chemistry, and more. All 377 entries, beautifully illustrated with color photographs and helpful visual symbols, provide descriptions and practical information about appearance, classification, rarity, crystal formation, mode of occurrence, gravity of mineral, rock chemistry, modal classification fields, formational environments, grain sizes of rocks, and much more.

Whether you are a serious collector or an information-seeking amateur, this incomparably beautiful, authoritative guide will prove an invaluable reference.

Rocks, Minerals and Gemstones Simon & Schuster's Guide to Rocks and Minerals, (Paperback)
Author: Touchstone Books
ISBN: 9780671244170
Format: Paperback
Publication Date: 1978-11-15
Page Count: 607

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Book format

Paperback

Fiction/nonfiction

Non-Fiction

Genre

Travel & Nature

Pub date

1978-11-15

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