Unearth a treasure trove of knowledge and discover the spectacular array of rocks and minerals on Earth! Learn how to identify more than 500 rocks and minerals of the world through stunning photographs, detailed characteristics, and quick, accessible text. Inside the pages of this comprehensive book about rocks and minerals, you’ll discover: • A clear visual key distinguishing different rocks and minerals to make identification easy and accurate • Entries that include at-a-glance technical details, for quick reference • Stunning photographs that show close-ups of key details and unique attributes • Highlights of the key features of minerals: chemical group and composition, hardness, specific gravity, crystal cleavage, and fracture • Highlights of the key features of rocks: group, origin, pressure and temperature, grain size and shape, classification, and fossils All you ever wanted to know about rocks and minerals - and then some From igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks to sparkling minerals, SI Handbooks: Rocks & Minerals leaves no stone unturned. Over 600 high-quality photographs highlight over 500 rock or mineral's distinguishing features. Explore concise details about each rock or mineral's texture, origin, formation, and chemical composition to help you with accurate identification. Discover a mine of information at your disposal! Designed for beginners and experienced collectors alike, this mineralogy book explains what rocks and minerals are, how they are classified, and what equipment is needed for specimen collection. It’s the ultimate gift for rock collectors - both beginners and enthusiasts, or anyone studying geology and earth sciences. Don’t stop exploring! Before you go, there are many more SI Handbooks to explore! Discover the cleanest-cut photographic field guide to over 130 gemstones from around the world in SI Handbooks: Gemstones. Learn all about dinosaurs and prehistoric animals and the world they inhabited millions of years ago in SI Handbooks: Dinosaurs.
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
Geological Structures is an easy-to-use, highly informative photographic field guide that introduces the great variety of geological structures to be found all around us. The authors' beautiful photography, extended captions and accessible text make interpreting and understanding geological structures simple, whether you're an amateur enthusiast keen to learn or a more experienced geologist. The three main rock groups - igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary - and their related structures are each covered in detail, followed by sections focusing on folds and folding, faults and faulting, and unconformities. Structures and related landforms are illustrated in more than 200 detailed colour photographs and their helpful captions assist with identification in the field. Each geological account includes an indication of the structure's formation and provides useful information on how to identify and understand its distinguishing features.
Pack up your gear and get ready to go on a dig. Whether it's iron ore, dazzling gemstones, or a prehistoric creature preserved in amber, a mother lode of exciting discoveries await budding paleontologists and geologists in this informative picture book. Large and detailed full-color spreads, complemented by clear, concise text unearth the mysteries of the ground beneath our feet. Children will learn how rocks, crystals, minerals, and fossils are formed, where they are found, and how they are used. Step-by-step illustrations and captions explore such processes as the fossilization of ancient animals and plants, together with the work of the scientists who catalog and preserve them. Includes an illustrated glossary and an index to sharpen the young reader's reference skills.
Easy to use, highly informative and illustrated throughout with colour photographs, this title covers all classifications of rocks and minerals, with more than 150 examples from around the world featured, including all of the common ones and also some more unusual.
Covers all classifications of fossils, with more than 190 fossils from around the world featured. This title is suitable for those interested in uncovering the many mysteries of the fossils.
1000 Things You Should Know About Rocks & Minerals is a fantastic reference resource. Each of the 100 subjects are covered in 10 key facts and accompanied by detailed artwork and photography. Explore geology and find out some incredible facts."--Back cover.
This companion to minerals combines exciting activities with accessible scientific information and an extensive glossary of geological terms. The authors look at how minerals form and the everyday use of minerals.
A comprehensive, illustrated identification guide for beginners and serious collectors alike, featuring special color photography of specimens held at the Natural History Museum, London. Rocks and minerals are naturally occurring compounds formed by intense geological processes in the Earth's crust such as volcanic eruptions. With striking color photography of rocks and minerals from around the globe, this detailed and easy-to-use guide is designed to help readers identify specimens and begin collecting. Fully fact-checked by the Department of Mineralogy at the Natural History Museum, London, this guide will give you geological knowledge at your fingertips.
This companion to rocks combines exciting activities with accessible scientific information and an extensive glossary of geological terms. The authors look at how rocks form and the everyday use of rocks.
This companion to fossils combines exciting activities with accessible scientific information and an extensive glossary of geological terms. The authors look at how fossils form and at some ancient animals.
Ten bulleted facts on every spread, accompanied by hundreds of illustrations and photographs, give children a detailed and comprehensive insight to fossils - plant, animal and human.
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