Rocks and Minerals (Princeton Field Guides #137)

Chris Pellant, Helen Pellant

$19.95

Publication Date: November 17th, 2020

Publisher:

Princeton University Press

ISBN:

9780691204062

Pages:

208

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Description

A comprehensive, up-to-date field guide to the world's rocks and minerals

This detailed and easy-to-use guide contains striking photography of rocks and minerals from around the globe, and is designed to help readers and collectors identify specimens of these compounds, which are formed by geological processes in the earth's crust. Useful for beginners and serious collectors alike, this handy volume features special color photography of specimens from the Natural History Museum in London, which holds one of the largest collections in the world.

Beautiful color photographs
Comprehensive, up-to-date information
Suitable for serious collectors and those new to the field
Special photography of unique specimens from the Natural History Museum in London

About the Author

Chris and Helen Pellant, a husband-and-wife team, have been writing earth science books together since the 1980s, as well as running their own photographic library (picsandwords.com). Their many books include Smithsonian Handbooks: Rocks and Minerals and Geological Structures: An Introductory Field Guide.