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Rocks and minerals / by Chris Pellant ; Helen Pellant, editorial consultant ; photography by Harry Taylor.
Gives informative descriptions and photographs of more than five hundred specimens of rocks and minerals.
Record details
- ISBN: 156458061X
- ISBN: 9781564580610
- ISBN: 075131000X
- ISBN: 9780751310009
- ISBN: 0863188109
- ISBN: 9780863188107
- ISBN: 1564580334
- ISBN: 9781564580337
- Physical Description: 256 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Edition: First American edition.
- Publisher: New York : Dorling Kindersley ; 1992.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Includes index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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 fo 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 tungtates -- phosphates, arsenates, and vanadates -- Silicates -- Rocks -- Igneous rocks -- Metamorphic rocks -- Sedimentary rocks -- Glossary -- Index-- Acknowledgements. |
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| Subject: | Rocks > Handbooks, manuals, etc. Minerals > Handbooks, manuals, etc. Rocks > Identification > Handbooks, manuals, etc. Minerals > Identification > Handbooks, manuals, etc. |
| Genre: | Handbooks and manuals. |
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| Scenic Regional-Warrenton | J552 PEL (Text) | 3002679763 | Juvenile NonFiction | Checked out | 12/15/2023 |
