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Title: ROCKS AND ROCK MINERALS
By: Richard V. Dietrich, Brian J. Skinner
Format: Paperback

List price: £118.95


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ISBN 10: 0471029343
ISBN 13: 9780471029342
Publisher: JOHN WILEY AND SONS LTD
Pub. date: 30 July, 1979
Pages: 336
Description: A contemporary successor to the Louis V. Pirsson and Adolph Knopf editions, providing a guide and reference that explains how rocks occur, their commercial usage, and how to identify them through macroscopic, handspecimen features.
Synopsis: A contemporary successor to the Louis V. Pirsson and Adolph Knopf editions, providing a guide and reference that explains how rocks occur, their commercial usage, and how to identify them through macroscopic, handspecimen features. Gives complete coverage of rock-forming minerals, rocks and man-made, rock-like materials, as well as meteorites, impactites, grossans, and more. Tables are provided for identifications based on megascopic examinations and simple field tests that require no sophisticated laboratory equipment. Plus, numerous illustrations represent rocks and rock-forming minerals as they appear in nature.
Illustrations: illustrations, bibliography, index
Publication: US
Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Returns: Returnable
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