Instant Guide to Rocks and Minerals (Instant Guides) - Hardcover

Cecilia Fitzsimons; Eva Fejer

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9780517635506: Instant Guide to Rocks and Minerals (Instant Guides)

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An Instant Guide to Rocks and Minerals is an ideal compact identification guide to the rocks, minerals, and crystals found on the shore, in the desert, in national parks, on old mine tips, in yards, and in the stone and stone-faced buildings of North America.
This user-friendly guide assumes no previous knowledge: an easy-to-follow system of color-coded bands and symbols designating type of rock and hardness of mineral leads quickly to the correct section of the book. Detailed, full-color illustrations and a concise but informative text that includes details of principal U.S. locations allow you to identify accurately the most familiar rocks and minerals of North America.

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An Instant Guide to Rocks and Minerals is an ideal compact identification guide to the rocks, minerals, and crystals found on the shore, in the desert, in national parks, on old mine tips, in yards, and in the stone and stone-faced buildings of North America.
This user-friendly guide assumes no previous knowledge: an easy-to-follow system of color-coded bands and symbols designating type of rock and hardness of mineral leads quickly to the correct section of the book. Detailed, full-color illustrations and a concise but informative text that includes details of principal U.S. locations allow you to identify accurately the most familiar rocks and minerals of North America.

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9780681411722: An Instant Guide to Rocks and Minerals: The Most Familiar Rocks and Minerals of North America Described and Illustrated in Full Color

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ISBN 10:  0681411724 ISBN 13:  9780681411722
Publisher: Longmeadow Pr, 1991
Softcover