Name: Peterson First Guide to Rocks & Minerals
Price: 8.99 USD
Availability: BackOrder
ISBN: 9780395935439

Gain an overview of the Rocks & Minerals you're likely to encounter or study first; Gems, ores, rocks, minerals other types are covered in plain language! Photographs, diagrams and written descriptions will help you in your quest to understand the natural world. The Peterson First Guides ® are condensed versions of the Peterson Field Guides ®. 128 pages, softcover. 3.75" x 7.25".

Title: Peterson First Guide to Rocks & Minerals
By: Frederick H. Pough
Format: Paperback
Vendor: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publication Date: 1991

Weight: 5 ounces
ISBN: 0395935431
ISBN-13: 9780395935439
Stock No: WW35433

Written and designed for the beginner, this book describes and illustrates the most common and interesting rocks and minerals, from simple sandstone to exotic gems. Illustrated with dozens of beautiful color photographs, it tells how these rocks and minerals formed and how to identify them--and includes tips on collecting.

Frederick H. Pough (1907-2006) was a mineralogist and museum curator who wrote a guide to collecting gems and minerals that became essential for geologists. He wrote A Field Guide to Rocks and Minerals while serving as a curator of physical geology and mineralogy at the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan.

ROGER TORY PETERSON, one of the world’s greatest naturalists, received every major award for ornithology, natural science, and conservation as well as numerous honorary degrees, medals, and citations, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The Peterson Identification System has been called the greatest invention since binoculars.

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