Rocks and Rock Minerals

ISBN-13: 9780471029342 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 336 str.

Richard V. Dietrich; Brian J. Skinner; Brian J. Skinner

Opis

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.

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Minerals and Their Properties.

The Rock–Forming Minerals.

Determination of Rock–forming Minerals.

Igneous and Pyroclastic Rocks.

Sedimentary and Diagenetic Rocks.

Metamorphic Rocks and Migmatites.

Other Rocks and Pseudo–Rocks.

Identification Tables for Rocks.

Index.