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Simon and Schuster's Guide to rocks and minerals / edited by Martin Prinz, George Harlow, and Joseph Peters.

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Simon and Schuster's Guide to rocks and minerals / edited by Martin Prinz, George Harlow, and Joseph Peters.
Publication
New York : Simon and Schuster, [1978]

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Additional Authors
  • Crespi, Rodolfo.
  • Harlow, George E.
  • Liborio, Giuseppe.
  • Mottana, Annibale.
  • Peters, Joseph, 1951-
  • Prinz, Martin.
Description
607 p. : ill.; 19 cm.
Summary
An illustrated field guide detailing the classification, physical properties, occurrence, formation, rarity, and practical uses of more than three hundred seventy minerals and rocks.
Alternative Title
  • Guide to rocks and minerals.
  • Rocks and minerals
Subject
  • Mineralogy > Handbooks, manuals, etc
  • Minerals > Collection and preservation
  • Minerals > Collectors and collecting
  • Petrology > Handbooks, manuals, etc
  • Rocks > Collection and preservation
Genre/Form
  • Handbooks and manuals
  • Handbooks and manuals.
Note
  • Translation of Minerali e rocce, by A. Mottana, R. Crespi, and G. Liborio.
  • Includes index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Minerals -- Native Elements -- Sulfides -- Halides -- Oxides and Hydroxides -- Nitrates -- Sulfates, Chromates, Molybdates and Tungstates -- Phosphates, Arsenates and Vanadates -- Silicates -- Organic Substances -- Rocks -- Igneous Rocks -- Sedimentary Rocks -- Metamorphic Rocks.
ISBN
0671243969. 0671244175
LCCN
^^^78008610^
OCLC
3893497
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library