Provides a close-up view of various types of rocks and minerals and describes their origins, the effects they have on the landscape, and how they have been used.
This guide, illustrated with more than 80 color photographs, helps the reader identify a wide selection of rocks and minerals and provides information on how they were formed and on some of their more important uses.
Photographs and text help describe more than five hundred specimens of rocks and minerals, explain what they are, describe how they are classified, and offer suggestions on how to start a collection.
