Guide to Minerals, Rocks and Fossils - Softcover

Bishop, A.; Woolley, A.; Hamilton, W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1554070546 ISBN 13: 9781554070541

Verlag: FIREFLY BOOKS LTD, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

A detailed and extensively illustrated handbook.

The colors, shapes and properties of minerals vary from the bland to the magnificent. Guide to Minerals, Rocks and Fossils is a practical and authoritative handbook that is both comprehensive and easy to use.

Each of the 600 specimens is shown in full color, sometimes in two or more forms. There are also drawings that show the structure of the crystalline specimens. It covers the basics like granite, as well as oddities like meteorites and tektites.

Fossils include sponges, corals, arthropods, brachiopods, and fossil land plants.

Each is described in detail, with notes on:

• color and transparency
• grain size
• hardness
• structure
• occurrence
• mineralogy
• distinguishing features
• habit
• cleavage
• texture
• alteration
• luster

Mineral names, chemical formulae and structural data accord to international standards. This is a very complete, but attractive and useful volume in a respected series.

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As a most useful field guide for explorers or as a straightforward, beautifully illustrated and written general reference, this book is unparalleled. Summing Up: Essential.--T.L.T. Grose"Choice" (10/01/2005)

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A detailed and extensively illustrated handbook.

The colors, shapes and properties of minerals vary from the bland to the magnificent. Guide to Minerals, Rocks and Fossils is a practical and authoritative handbook that is both comprehensive and easy to use.

Each of the 600 specimens is shown in full color, sometimes in two or more forms. There are also drawings that show the structure of the crystalline specimens. It covers the basics like granite, as well as oddities like meteorites and tektites.

Fossils include sponges, corals, arthropods, brachiopods, and fossil land plants.

Each is described in detail, with notes on:

• color and transparency
• grain size
• hardness
• structure
• occurrence
• mineralogy
• distinguishing features
• habit
• cleavage
• texture
• alteration
• luster

Mineral names, chemical formulae and structural data accord to international standards. This is a very complete, but attractive and useful volume in a respected series.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: FIREFLY BOOKS LTD
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1554070546
• ISBN 13: 9781554070541
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 336
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar