Rocks and Minerals
A comprehensive, up-to-date field guide to the world’s rocks and minerals

This detailed and easy-to-use guide contains striking photography of rocks and minerals from around the globe, and is designed to help readers and collectors identify specimens of these compounds, which are formed by geological processes in the earth’s crust. Useful for beginners and serious collectors alike, this handy volume features special color photography of specimens from the Natural History Museum in London, which holds one of the largest collections in the world.

  • Beautiful color photographs
  • Comprehensive, up-to-date information
  • Suitable for serious collectors and those new to the field
  • Special photography of unique specimens from the Natural History Museum in London
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Rocks and Minerals
A comprehensive, up-to-date field guide to the world’s rocks and minerals

This detailed and easy-to-use guide contains striking photography of rocks and minerals from around the globe, and is designed to help readers and collectors identify specimens of these compounds, which are formed by geological processes in the earth’s crust. Useful for beginners and serious collectors alike, this handy volume features special color photography of specimens from the Natural History Museum in London, which holds one of the largest collections in the world.

  • Beautiful color photographs
  • Comprehensive, up-to-date information
  • Suitable for serious collectors and those new to the field
  • Special photography of unique specimens from the Natural History Museum in London
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Rocks and Minerals

Rocks and Minerals

Rocks and Minerals

Rocks and Minerals

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A comprehensive, up-to-date field guide to the world’s rocks and minerals

This detailed and easy-to-use guide contains striking photography of rocks and minerals from around the globe, and is designed to help readers and collectors identify specimens of these compounds, which are formed by geological processes in the earth’s crust. Useful for beginners and serious collectors alike, this handy volume features special color photography of specimens from the Natural History Museum in London, which holds one of the largest collections in the world.

  • Beautiful color photographs
  • Comprehensive, up-to-date information
  • Suitable for serious collectors and those new to the field
  • Special photography of unique specimens from the Natural History Museum in London

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780691204062
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 11/17/2020
Series: Princeton Field Guides , #137
Pages: 208
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x (d)
Age Range: 9 - 12 Years

About the Author

Chris and Helen Pellant, a husband-and-wife team, have been writing earth science books together since the 1980s, as well as running their own photographic library (picsandwords.com). Their many books include Smithsonian Handbooks: Rocks and Minerals and Geological Structures: An Introductory Field Guide.

Table of Contents

Introduction 5

Introduction to rocks 7

Igneous rocks 13

Metamorphic rocks 29

Sedimentary rocks 36

Introduction to minerals 53

Native elements 62

Sulphides, sulphosalts, arsenides and tellurides 68

Halides 86

Oxides and hydroxides 91

Carbonates, nitrates and borates 109

Sulphates, chromates, molybdates and tungstates 123

Phosphates, arsenates and vanadates 136

Silicates 150

Glossary 197

Further information 200

Index 201

Picture credits 208

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