Author: Dennis R. Garrett
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781466332485
Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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The first and only complete fully illustrated Field Guide to Alaska Rocks and Minerals, this is a completely new guidebook to Alaska rocks and minerals. Written by an Alaskan prospector, miner, rockhound, and collector, there are hundreds of sites listed that have never been published before, and have been visited by a select few.These are the choice sites and collecting areas, selected from over 8,000 mines, prospects, and mineral occurrences in Alaska.There are also chapters providing information to getting started if you are new to collecting, as well as reference sources and places both online and in person where you may get more information.The areas covered by the book, which are the most road-accessible parts of Alaska, have detailed maps, descriptions, and numerous photos to help guide you. The maps show access, collection locations, and other important information.This easy-to-use book will be useful for people of all ages and lists locations to over 100 different mineral types, including fossils, precious metals (gold, platinum, etc.), gemstones and many others.
Author: Montana Hodges
Publisher: Falcon Guides
ISBN: 9781493034000
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Rockhounding Alaska is a must-have book for collecting rocks, minerals, and fossils in the Last Frontier. This guidebook features an overview of the state's geologic history as well as a site-by-site guide to seventy-five collecting locations that stretch from Kodiak Island to the Arctic Circle, with treasures ranging from ancient fossilized sea creatures to precious gems and gold nuggets.
Author: Simon & Schuster
Publisher: Touchstone
ISBN: 9780671244170
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 612
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An easy to use field guide that contains everything rock and mineral enthusiasts need to know with more than 1,000 spectacular illustrations—600 in full color! Practical, concise, and easy to use, Simon & Schuster’s Guide to Rocks and Minerals contains everything that the rock and mineral enthusiast needs to know. This field guide is divided into two large sections—one devoted to minerals and one to rocks, each prefaced by a comprehensive introduction that discusses formation, chemistry, and more. All 377 entries, beautifully illustrated with color photographs and helpful visual symbols, provide descriptions and practical information about appearance, classification, rarity, crystal formation, mode of occurrence, gravity of mineral, rock chemistry, modal classification fields, formational environments, grain sizes of rocks, and much more. Whether you are a serious collector or an information-seeking amateur, this incomparably beautiful, authoritative guide will prove an invaluable reference.
Author: Montana Hodges
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0762765755
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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Rockhounding Alaska will be an in-depth guide to the rocks, minerals and fossils legally found and collected within the state. The book will contain a light, informative overview of the geologic history of Alaska as well as a site-by-site guide to approximately 70 collecting locations. Included with every site will be clear concise driving directions, a GPS position and list of major attractions and local amenities. The exciting locations stretch from Kodiak Island to the Arctic Circle and range from ancient fossilized sea creatures to precious gems and gold nuggets.
Author: Harold Stowell
Publisher: University of Alaska Press
ISBN: 1602231338
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 154
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The most powerful forces on earth have shaped the landscape of Southeast Alaska. Scientists and visitors from around the world trek north to experience wild rivers, powerful glaciers, and breathtaking mountain peaks. Now, for the first time, a handy guide to the region is available. Complete with color illustrations revealing millions of years of geological history and in-depth descriptions of Sitka, Juneau, and Glacier Bay, Geology of Southeast Alaska is essential reading for anyone fascinated by rock and ice in motion. Written by a geologist with over twenty-five years of experience in the north, Geology of Southeast Alaska will entertain and inform with abundant photographs and detailed drawings. Whether you want to understand the forces that shaped the state of Alaska, or you want to learn the basics of glacial movement, this compact, authoritative book is for you.
Author: W. Dan Hausel
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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Author: McWilliams
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780996103282
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 194
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rock and mineral locations with stories in Alaska's Inside Passage and around Prince of Wales Island.
Author: Leslie Moclock
Publisher: Timber Press
ISBN: 1604699159
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 361
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Rocks, Minerals, and Geology of the Pacific Northwest highlights100 rocks, minerals, and fossil types found in Oregon and Washington. Each entry has color photography that shows a range of possibilities in appearance and a description of the defining physical properties and textures. Lists of minerals organized by other physical properties like habit, hardness, and cleavage are included. Rocks, Minerals, and Geology of the Pacific Northwest also includes 40 landscape features viewable along trails in Washington and Oregon that will empower hikers to make observations and interpretations about how these features came to be. The essential reference for rockhounds, hikers, climbers, and geology enthusiasts More than 400 photographs, illustrations, tables, and maps showcase and explain everything from minuscule crystals to planetary tectonics Interprets the histories of dominant landscape features along regional hiking trails Profiles more than 100 minerals and rocks in detailed entries with photos, descriptions, identification graphics, and mini indexes Covers the geologic composition and 13 physiographic regions of Washington and Oregon
Author: Frederick H. Pough
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mineralogy, Determinative
Languages : en
Pages : 317
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Author: Charles Wesley Chesterman
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 876
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