quartz

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quartz

Biogeology reshapes Earth!

2021
Everything is connected on Earth, even if we can't see it right away. Biogeology is the study of the important and sometimes weird relationships between living things and the Earth itself. Young readers might know how beavers dam rivers to make ponds, but they probably don't know about the hungry bacteria that eat rocks to make sparkly minerals like pyrite.

Quartz

1981
Discusses the many uses of the world's most common mineral, whose forms range from the ordinary grain of sand to the amethyst, a semiprecious stone.
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