Simon & Schuster’s Guide to Rocks and Minerals
Simon & Schuster’s Guide to Rocks and Minerals by Simon & Schuster is a comprehensive field guide published by Touchstone in 1978, featuring 607 pages in English. This guide is designed for rock and mineral enthusiasts, providing essential information through more than 1,000 illustrations, including 600 in full color. It is organized into two main sections—one focused on minerals and the other on rocks—each introduced with detailed discussions on formation and chemistry.
Readers will find 377 entries that offer practical insights into the appearance, classification, and rarity of various rocks and minerals. The guide includes visual symbols to enhance understanding and covers topics such as crystal formation, gravity, and grain sizes. This resource serves as an invaluable reference for both serious collectors and casual learners interested in nature, rocks, and minerals.
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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.
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