Rocks Minerals category: 250 books
Cairns
Messengers in Stone
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
From meadow trails to airy mountaintops and wide open desert, cairnsthose seemingly random stacks of rockare surprisingly rich in stories and meaning. For thousands of years cairns have been used by people to connect to the landscape and communicate with others, and are often an essential guide to travelers....
by Various Authors
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before. The content has been carefully selected for its interest and relevance to a modern audience. Carefully selecting the best articles from our collection we have compiled a series of historical and informative publications on the...
by Edwin W. Streeter
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before. The content has been carefully selected for its interest and relevance to a modern audience. Carefully selecting the best articles from our collection we have compiled a series of historical and informative publications on the...
Rockhounding Montana
A Guide to 100 of Montana's Best Rockhounding Sites
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
With this informative, fully updated and revised guide, you can explore the mineral-rich region of Montana. It describes the state's best rockhounding sites and covers popular and commerical sites as well as numerous little-known areas. This handy guide also descirbes how to collect specimens, includes...
The Physical & Optical Properties of Gemstones
Gemstone Identification Using Physical & Optical Properties
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
This book contains a wealth of information on the physical and optical properties of gemstones. It covers in great detail each facet of these properties in the hope it will assist you, the reader, in correctly identifying gemstones. This publication has been written for both the experienced gem fossicker...
Early Australian Diamond Discoveries
Information on Where Diamonds have been Found in Australia & How to Identify Them
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
This book contains stories on early Australian diamond discoveries, and also includes details on how to identify the diamonds you find. The information included has come from early original newspaper sources. Through the passage of time, many Australian diamond locations have been forgotten. The aim...
Identificaton of Pearls
Australian Gemstones Series Book 8
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2016
This book contains a wealth of information on all aspects of pearls, saltwater and freshwater, their appearance, diagnostic properties, common treatments and imitations.
Designed for the beginner or experienced, it will greatly assist those wishing to find out more about how to correctly identify...
Plant Fossil Atlas From (Pennsylvanian) Carboniferous Age
Found In Central Appalachian Coalfields
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
This book is a picture guide to fossil plants and a few fossil marine organisms found in close association with the coal measures in southwestern Virginia. The fossils are sorted by groups and located as to coal seam horizon and geographic location. Short descriptions of each group of plant types...
Gold Panning Colorado
A Guide to the State's Best Sites for Gold
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Gold Panning Colorado is the premiere reference source for anyone who is interested in getting started or continuing their gold prospecting in Colorado. Containing accurate, up-to-date prospecting information for all known panning areas in Colorado. The write-ups for each locale include driving directions,...
The Pocket Book of Stones, Revised Edition
Who They Are and What They Teach
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
The spiritual and healing qualities of 390 members of the mineral kingdom are detailed here in The Pocket Book of Stones, Robert Simmons's condensed reference guide to to crystals and gems. Based on the bestselling The Book of Stones: Who They Are and What They Teach, this guide describes 47 new stones...
by Frank Davis
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
Gemmology is the science of natural and artificial gems and gemstones, considered to be a geoscience and a branch of mineralogy. Although a profession in its own right, gemmology is often studied by jewellers to augment their abilities of gem identification. This comprehensive guide concentrates on...
How on Earth?
Answers to the puzzles of our planet
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2012
This book addresses some of the puzzles in nature: Why do the coastlines of Africa and South America match? Why is Table Mountain flat? Why is there pumice stone on the beaches of Arniston? What causes a tsunami? How does rock get folded? etc. The simple explanations – geological, mineralogical,...
by Manly P. Hall
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Manly Palmer Hall was a Canadian-born author and mystic. He is best known for his 1928 work The Secret Teachings of All Ages. «Stones, Metals and Gems» is a part of the famous book written by Manly Palmer Hall «The Secret Teachings of All Ages: An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic,...
A Grain of Sand
Nature's Secret Wonder
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008
"To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower. To hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour."
William Blake, "Auguries of Innocence"1805
Here is the world viewed within a grain of sand, thanks to the stunning three-dimensional microphotography...