Oddities of the Mineral World
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Rating | : | 4.29 (824 Votes) |
Asin | : | 0442273460 |
Format Type | : | paperback |
Number of Pages | : | 142 Pages |
Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Included in this book are intriguing chapters such as: natural crystals and other materials, inclusions, agate nodules, thundereggs, and geodes, pseudomorphs, and much more. Oddities of the Mineral World is a fascinating, informative book specifically designed to acquaint both beginning and advanced collectors, mineralogists, speleologists, paleontologists, and lapidaries with the amazing and varied world of the unusual, a world that truly encompasses all of the earth sciences. A great rock and mineral book, for all ages.. This book is illustrated throughout with unstaged, straightforward photographs, in color and black and white, of representative specimens, There is a selected bibliography of both books and periodicals and a complete index