Rocks Minerals category: 250 books
Rockhounding New York
A Guide to the State's Best Rockhounding Sites
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
A complete guide and source-book brimming with advice on collecting and preparing gems and minerals .
by Friedrich Naumann
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
Nobody can escape the fascination of the mineral world, because each mineral is a unique specimen and evokes admiration due to its form, colour, shape and distinct features. Worldwide, more than 4600 different minerals were identified. Since 2008, the most beautiful of them have found their permanent...
Rockhounding Nevada
A Guide to The State's Best Rockhounding Sites
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2019
A complete guide and source-book brimming with advice on collecting and preparing gems and minerals.
by Friedrich Naumann
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2018
Nobody can escape the fascination of the mineral world, because each mineral is a unique specimen and evokes admiration due to its form, colour, shape and distinct features. Worldwide, more than 4600 different minerals were identified. Since 2008, the most beautiful of them have found their permanent...
by Mary Lindeen
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 26, 2018
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 26, 2018
Many of America’s most loved symbols are monuments built from stone. Find out more about these historical markers and the stones they come from in History Rocks!
The Fossil Detectives
Discovering Prehistoric Britain
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
Fossils provide us with a tantalizing glimpse of Britain's prehistoric past and hold the key to unlocking the secrets of life's history and evolution. Since the appearance of primitive organisms in Britain more than a billion years ago, oceans, deserts, swamps and vast mountains have come and gone...
by Julius Hensel
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1991
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1991
This book was the first work to attack Von Liebig’s salt fertilizer thesis, and it stands as valid today as when first written over 100 years ago. Translated from the German writings of Julius Hensel, the book was designed to introduce the people of the U.S. to the idea that plants require healthy...
Explore Fossils!
With 25 Great Projects
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
In Explore Fossils! With 25 Great Projects, readers can expand their dinosaur obsessions into learning opportunities that take them beyond Triceratops, Stegosaurus, and even Tyrannosaurus rex to other animals, plants, and microbes that lived long before humans.
Explore Fossils! introduces young...
by Jen Green
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2012
People throughout time have attempted to make sense of the earth, why there are earthquakes, how rocks are formed, and more. Earth, before people came to be and since, has a rich history. This book takes a look at some of the early scientific and cultural beliefs about the Earth and how discoveries have shaped our modern culture.
Color Your Life with Crystals
Your First Guide to Crystals, Colors and Chakras
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Tapping into children’s seemingly inherent love of rocks, this accessible introduction to gemology provides youngsters with a base understanding of crystal qualities, the power of colors, and the metaphysical importance of positive thinking. Divided into seven sections, each chakra is explored and...
Identification of Diamonds
Australian Gemstones Series Book 14
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
This book takes a look at diamonds, in particular the common forms of diamond, rocks in which diamonds are found in nature, diamond types, electrical behaviour, thermal conductivity, chemical composition, crystallography, hardness, specific gravity, determining synthetic diamonds to natural, colour,...
Rockhounding Wyoming
A Guide to the State's Best Rockhounding Sites
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
The 75 sites described in this guide take you across the red desert to the high mountain majesty of the Big Horns and Wind Rivers as well as the geologic wonders of Yellowstone National Park. Graham, a former hardrock miner, developed an interest in rocks at an early age, and he shares his enthusiasm...
Stories in Stone
Travels through Urban Geology
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2019
Most people do not think to observe geology from the sidewalks of a major city, but all David B. Williams has to do is look at building stone in any urban center to find a range of rocks equal to any assembled by plate tectonics. In Stories in Stone, he takes you on explorations to find 3.5-billion-year-old...
Boom, Bust, Boom
A Story About Copper, the Metal that Runs the World
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
From “a first-rate writer in the fascinating tradition of Junger and Krakauer” (Jim Harrison, author of Legends of the Fall), a sweeping account of civilization’s complete dependence on copper and what it all means for people, nature, and the global economy.
A SWEEPING ACCOUNT OF CIVILIZATION’S...