Author: Frederick H. Pough
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395910962
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
Describes hundreds of minerals and lists their geographic distribution, physical properties, chemical composition, and crystalline structure.
A Field Guide to Rocks and Minerals
Author: Frederick H. Pough
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395910962
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
Describes hundreds of minerals and lists their geographic distribution, physical properties, chemical composition, and crystalline structure.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395910962
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
Describes hundreds of minerals and lists their geographic distribution, physical properties, chemical composition, and crystalline structure.
Handbook of Rocks, Minerals, and Gemstones
Author: Walter Schumann
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395511374
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Contains descriptions and photographs of approximately six hundred minerals, rocks, and meteorites, providing information about the history, origin, structure, composition, properties, classification, and location of each specimen.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395511374
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Contains descriptions and photographs of approximately six hundred minerals, rocks, and meteorites, providing information about the history, origin, structure, composition, properties, classification, and location of each specimen.
The West Without Water
Author: B. Lynn Ingram
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520268555
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
"Documents the tumultuous climate of the American West over twenty thousand years, with tales of past droughts and deluges and predictions about the impacts of future climate change on water resources."--Back cover.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520268555
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
"Documents the tumultuous climate of the American West over twenty thousand years, with tales of past droughts and deluges and predictions about the impacts of future climate change on water resources."--Back cover.
Consumers' Guide
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1250
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1250
Book Description
National Audubon Society Field Guide to Rocks and Minerals
Author: Charles Wesley Chesterman
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 876
Book Description
Donation.
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 876
Book Description
Donation.
The World of Fluorescent Minerals
Author: Stuart L. Schneider
Publisher: Schiffer Book for Collectors
ISBN: 9780764325441
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A sweeping survey of the fluorescent minerals of the world shown both in daylight and under the ultraviolet light. Written for the collector and the merely curious, this pictorial reference will capture your attention with its 825 color photos and informative text. It is an essential source for enjoying and identifying fluorescent minerals.
Publisher: Schiffer Book for Collectors
ISBN: 9780764325441
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A sweeping survey of the fluorescent minerals of the world shown both in daylight and under the ultraviolet light. Written for the collector and the merely curious, this pictorial reference will capture your attention with its 825 color photos and informative text. It is an essential source for enjoying and identifying fluorescent minerals.
The Essential Guide to Crystals, Minerals and Stones
Author: Margaret Ann Lembo
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide
ISBN: 0738732524
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Improve your life on all levels--mentally, physically, emotionally, and spiritually--with this essential reference guide to 160 easily-procured crystals, minerals, and stones. Packed with practical knowledge and 190 beautiful full-color photos, this easy-to-use handbook will teach you all about the gemstone world. Each page provides you with concise information: stone name and properties, color, corresponding chakra, planet, element, zodiac sign, numerological association, and mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual uses. Margaret Ann Lembo's metaphysical crystal directory will also give you Mohs scale ratings, divinatory meanings, and a series of positive affirmations for each stone. Learn how to charge, cleanse, and use gemstones in healing grids, plus how to use them as oracles for personal development and spiritual awakening. Praise: "When energetically used with the understandings and tips provided in this A-Z essential guide, all good things are possible. Your 'everything' go-to for crystals!"--Cyndi Dale, bestselling author of The Complete Book of Chakra Healing and Beyond Soul Mates "A must-have guide for anyone who even enjoys picking up rocks. Her straight-from-the-hip approach is matched by her passion, love and knowledge of each and every geode, multifaceted crystal, and everything in between."--Joan Ranquet, author of Communication with All Life
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide
ISBN: 0738732524
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Improve your life on all levels--mentally, physically, emotionally, and spiritually--with this essential reference guide to 160 easily-procured crystals, minerals, and stones. Packed with practical knowledge and 190 beautiful full-color photos, this easy-to-use handbook will teach you all about the gemstone world. Each page provides you with concise information: stone name and properties, color, corresponding chakra, planet, element, zodiac sign, numerological association, and mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual uses. Margaret Ann Lembo's metaphysical crystal directory will also give you Mohs scale ratings, divinatory meanings, and a series of positive affirmations for each stone. Learn how to charge, cleanse, and use gemstones in healing grids, plus how to use them as oracles for personal development and spiritual awakening. Praise: "When energetically used with the understandings and tips provided in this A-Z essential guide, all good things are possible. Your 'everything' go-to for crystals!"--Cyndi Dale, bestselling author of The Complete Book of Chakra Healing and Beyond Soul Mates "A must-have guide for anyone who even enjoys picking up rocks. Her straight-from-the-hip approach is matched by her passion, love and knowledge of each and every geode, multifaceted crystal, and everything in between."--Joan Ranquet, author of Communication with All Life
Rocks and Minerals
Author: Paul R. Shaffer
Publisher: Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 9780307244994
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Includes information on collecting and identifying minerals, and sections on metallic, nonmetallic, gem and rock-forming minerals, and on igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks.
Publisher: Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 9780307244994
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Includes information on collecting and identifying minerals, and sections on metallic, nonmetallic, gem and rock-forming minerals, and on igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks.
Collins Photo Guide to Rocks, Minerals and Gemstones
Author: Walter Schumann
Publisher: Collins
ISBN: 9780002199094
Category : Mineralogy
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
A guide to the major rocks, minerals and gemstones found in Europe. It contains an introduction to the basics of mineralogy, followed by a list of the general features of a rock that can be used in its identification. It also explains how to tell the basic difference between an igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rock, allowing quick reference to the major identification sections for each of these classes. In these will be found comprehensive descriptions of each rock or mineral, with details of its composition, hardness, specific gravity, colour, fracture, cleavage, streak, lustre, transparency and crystal system, as well as notes on how it is formed and where it might be found, both in the UK and in the rest of the world.
Publisher: Collins
ISBN: 9780002199094
Category : Mineralogy
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
A guide to the major rocks, minerals and gemstones found in Europe. It contains an introduction to the basics of mineralogy, followed by a list of the general features of a rock that can be used in its identification. It also explains how to tell the basic difference between an igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rock, allowing quick reference to the major identification sections for each of these classes. In these will be found comprehensive descriptions of each rock or mineral, with details of its composition, hardness, specific gravity, colour, fracture, cleavage, streak, lustre, transparency and crystal system, as well as notes on how it is formed and where it might be found, both in the UK and in the rest of the world.
Rocks and Minerals
Author: Ra Bonewitz
Publisher: DK Nature Guide
ISBN: 9781405375863
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
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Publisher: DK Nature Guide
ISBN: 9781405375863
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
No Marketing Blurb