petrology

A self-teaching guide for rock collectors using a question and answer format.

Readers will learn about 100,000 tons (91,000 metric tons) of rock fall to Earth from space every year. The world's lightest rock is pumice.

Readers will learn that rocks are found all over Earth. The rock cycle is a process that recycles rocks from one type to another.

Offers children an introduction to minerals, rocks, and soil, explaining how they are formed, where they can be found, how to identify them, and what they are used for.

Discusses the ongoing changing of rocks known as rock cycles and how different types of rocks are formed.

"Discusses the properties of igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks and how they are formed, as well as how plates shift on the earth's surface to create mountains and volcanoes. Includes diagrams to present the many geologic cycles rocks go through"--Provided by publisher.

Presents information on collecting and identifying rocks and minerals, with sections on metallic, nonmetallic, gem, and rock-forming minerals, and on igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks.

This book describes how rocks form, move, and change shape. An activity based on real world situations challenges readers to apply what they've learned in order to solve a puzzle.

An introduction to the rock cycle that discusses types of rocks, how it works, weathering, erosion, sediment, fossils, the work of geologists, and other related topics.

Presents a short study of weathering and erosion in connection to the rock cycle, and describes the elements that cause erosion, how erosion changes the earth's surface, and the important of weathering to the study of the earth.