Rocks and Minerals

by Chris Pellant, Helen Pellant

Overview

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

Editorial Reviews

Students, nature photographers, and budding geologists will find this book both easy to use and highly informative.” —Library Journal

“Perfectly pocket-sized and chock-a-block with full color images accompanied by helpful yet concise explanatory text, this handy little field guide looks to be just the ticket for every naturalist's field kit.” —The Well-Read Naturalist

From the Publisher

02/15/2015
This photographic field guide is just the ticket. It is conveniently sized to fit in a backpack or back pocket, making it suitable for circulating as well as reference collections. The colorful illustrations along with production details and common usages make the coverage interesting and accessible to readers from middle-school age to adult. Chris and Helen Pellant (Fossils: A Photographic Field Guide) are avid collectors and many of the specimens in the book are their own. The authors' intention with this title is to provide information both to collectors who need a quick guide to recognizing and classifying specimens and to those laypersons who would like to identify what they find. VERDICT Students, nature photographers, and budding geologists will find this book both easy to use and highly informative.—Christine Sharbrough, Chelmsford P.L., MA

Library Journal