Author: Ida Thompson
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 846
Book Description
A photographic field guide to fossils.
National Audubon Society Field Guide to Fossils
Author: Ida Thompson
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 846
Book Description
A photographic field guide to fossils.
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 846
Book Description
A photographic field guide to fossils.
Fossils of Iowa
Author: Robert Wolf
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504032780
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The Fossils of Iowa field guide is written primarily for amateurs in geological exploration and collecting. Robert Wolf provides a comprehensive coverage of more than 150 sites in Iowa and adjacent areas of Minnesota and Nebraska with the types of fossils that can be found and precise directions. Excellent illustrations by Carol Ann Ratcliff aide in identification. For an update in site conditions and geological names since the book was first published contact the author at [email protected].
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504032780
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The Fossils of Iowa field guide is written primarily for amateurs in geological exploration and collecting. Robert Wolf provides a comprehensive coverage of more than 150 sites in Iowa and adjacent areas of Minnesota and Nebraska with the types of fossils that can be found and precise directions. Excellent illustrations by Carol Ann Ratcliff aide in identification. For an update in site conditions and geological names since the book was first published contact the author at [email protected].
Discovering Fossils
Author: Frank A. Garcia
Publisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 9780811728003
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Complete beginner's guide, with vertebrate and invertebrate fossil descriptions.
Publisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 9780811728003
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Complete beginner's guide, with vertebrate and invertebrate fossil descriptions.
Minerals, Fossils, and Fluorescents of Arizona
Author: Neil R. Bearce
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780974984612
Category : Arizona
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
From the author of "Minerals of Arizona-a Field Guide for Collectors", comes a second field guide for Arizona collectors. This is not an updated version of "Minerals of Arizona", but an entirely new, expanded field guide designed for not only the mineral collector, but for fossil and fluorescent collectors as well. No other Arizona rockhound book contains special independent sctions on fossils and fluorescents. The field research for this work took over 3 years during which the author traveled over 25,000 miles across Arizona and visited over 300 potential collecting sites. To aide the collector, Minerals, Fossils, and Fluorescents includes: - 90 collecting sites complete with site photographs and National Geographic Topo! (C) maps. - Global positioning system coordinates for each location. - A difficulty scale informing the reader of the effort required to reach, navigate, and collect at each site. - chapters covering the basic science of the minerals, fossils, and fluorescents to be collected. - The geological formations at each site and the scientific properties of the speimens found there. - 20 pages of full color photographs of specimens by the well-known mineral photographer Jeffrey Scovil including 5 pages of fluorescent minerals. - Over 400 pages of text, maps, and collecting site and specimen photographs.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780974984612
Category : Arizona
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
From the author of "Minerals of Arizona-a Field Guide for Collectors", comes a second field guide for Arizona collectors. This is not an updated version of "Minerals of Arizona", but an entirely new, expanded field guide designed for not only the mineral collector, but for fossil and fluorescent collectors as well. No other Arizona rockhound book contains special independent sctions on fossils and fluorescents. The field research for this work took over 3 years during which the author traveled over 25,000 miles across Arizona and visited over 300 potential collecting sites. To aide the collector, Minerals, Fossils, and Fluorescents includes: - 90 collecting sites complete with site photographs and National Geographic Topo! (C) maps. - Global positioning system coordinates for each location. - A difficulty scale informing the reader of the effort required to reach, navigate, and collect at each site. - chapters covering the basic science of the minerals, fossils, and fluorescents to be collected. - The geological formations at each site and the scientific properties of the speimens found there. - 20 pages of full color photographs of specimens by the well-known mineral photographer Jeffrey Scovil including 5 pages of fluorescent minerals. - Over 400 pages of text, maps, and collecting site and specimen photographs.
Fossil Collecting in the Mid-Atlantic States
Author: Jasper Burns
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801841453
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
A lovely and loving piece of work, both an introduction to the hobby of fossil collecting and a beautifully illustrated field guide, with the author's drawings of some 450 fossil specimens and descriptions of 46 specific sites in Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia where they can be found. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801841453
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
A lovely and loving piece of work, both an introduction to the hobby of fossil collecting and a beautifully illustrated field guide, with the author's drawings of some 450 fossil specimens and descriptions of 46 specific sites in Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia where they can be found. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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.
Field Guide to the Devonian Fossils of New York
Author: Karl A. Wilson (Emeritus professor of biological sciences)
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780877105060
Category : Paleontology
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780877105060
Category : Paleontology
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
A Guide to Fossils
Author: Helmut Mayr
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780691029221
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Anyone interested in collecting fossils or in learning more about the previous life of these animals and plants will find a wealth of information in this lavishly illustrated guide. Here Helmut Mayr brings together over five hundred color photographs with concise and lively descriptions of both common and unusual fossils. Intended to aid amateurs in specimen identification and classification, this book offers an encyclopedic breadth of coverage that many specialists too will find useful. In his introduction Mayr discusses the most important genera of animals and plants, the origins of fossils and the forms of their preservation, tips on collecting and on recovery and storing, technical terminology, and insights into scientific research. The main section contains illustrations and descriptions of the fossils themselves, with an emphasis on ammonites, but also including corals, mollusks, snails, echinoderms and brachiopods, vertebrates, and plants. Each illustrated example is accompanied by information on distinguishing marks, geographical distribution, period of existence, and the habits and ecology of the important representatives of the individual genera.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780691029221
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Anyone interested in collecting fossils or in learning more about the previous life of these animals and plants will find a wealth of information in this lavishly illustrated guide. Here Helmut Mayr brings together over five hundred color photographs with concise and lively descriptions of both common and unusual fossils. Intended to aid amateurs in specimen identification and classification, this book offers an encyclopedic breadth of coverage that many specialists too will find useful. In his introduction Mayr discusses the most important genera of animals and plants, the origins of fossils and the forms of their preservation, tips on collecting and on recovery and storing, technical terminology, and insights into scientific research. The main section contains illustrations and descriptions of the fossils themselves, with an emphasis on ammonites, but also including corals, mollusks, snails, echinoderms and brachiopods, vertebrates, and plants. Each illustrated example is accompanied by information on distinguishing marks, geographical distribution, period of existence, and the habits and ecology of the important representatives of the individual genera.
Fossils
Author: DK
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0744030005
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The clearest and sharpest recognition guide to over 500 invertebrate, vertebrate, and plant fossils from around the world. This comprehensive pocket guide is the perfect introduction to finding, identifying, and collecting fossils. It features more than 500 species of plant and animal fossils, from trilobites and megafauna to dinosaurs and ancient trees. This handbook cuts through the complicated identification process with expertly written and thoroughly vetted text that features precise description, enabling you to recognize a species instantly. Over 1,000 photographs, with illuminating annotations, help you pick out a fossil's chief characteristics and distinguishing features, while a color illustration shows the fossil as a living plant or animal. The detailed introduction explains what a fossil is and how they are classified. Start building your own collection with advice on where to look for fossils, what tools and safety equipment are needed for collecting, and how best to organize a fossil collection. To help you in the initial stages of identification, this book provides a visual identification key that makes it easy to recognize a fossil and place it in its correct group. Finally, a concise glossary gives instant understanding of technical and scientific terms.
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0744030005
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The clearest and sharpest recognition guide to over 500 invertebrate, vertebrate, and plant fossils from around the world. This comprehensive pocket guide is the perfect introduction to finding, identifying, and collecting fossils. It features more than 500 species of plant and animal fossils, from trilobites and megafauna to dinosaurs and ancient trees. This handbook cuts through the complicated identification process with expertly written and thoroughly vetted text that features precise description, enabling you to recognize a species instantly. Over 1,000 photographs, with illuminating annotations, help you pick out a fossil's chief characteristics and distinguishing features, while a color illustration shows the fossil as a living plant or animal. The detailed introduction explains what a fossil is and how they are classified. Start building your own collection with advice on where to look for fossils, what tools and safety equipment are needed for collecting, and how best to organize a fossil collection. To help you in the initial stages of identification, this book provides a visual identification key that makes it easy to recognize a fossil and place it in its correct group. Finally, a concise glossary gives instant understanding of technical and scientific terms.
Richardson's Guide to the Fossil Fauna of Mazon Creek
Author: Charles W. Shabica
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780925065216
Category : Animals, Fossil
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780925065216
Category : Animals, Fossil
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description