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Rocks, minerals & fossils
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Rocks & Minerals of California
Dan R. Lynch, Bob Lynch
Rocks, minerals & fossils
Spiral bound
Focusing on California rocks and minerals, this tabbed booklet features detailed photographs, organized by rocks/minerals... [more]
Collector's Guide to Texas Cretaceous Echinoids
William Morgan
Palaeontology; Rocks, minerals & fossils
Paperback
Texas is known worldwide as a rich resource for the intricate Cretaceous-age echinoids widely sought by professional and amateur... [more]
Collecting Rocks, Gems and Minerals: Identification, Values and Lapidary...
Patti Polk
Mathematics & Sciences; Rocks, minerals & fossils
Paperback
Designed with beginners in mind, yet filled with valuable technical information for advanced enthusiasts, the new edition... [more]
Evolution of the Igneous Rocks: Fiftieth Anniversary Perspectives
Hatten Schuyler Yoder
Rocks, minerals & fossils
Hardback
The Evolution of the Igneous Rocks, by N. L. Bowen, appeared in 1928 and had a profound influence on later generations of... [more]
Fault-related Rocks: A Photographic Atlas
Arthur W. Snoke, Jan Tullis, Victoria R. Todd
Rocks, minerals & fossils; The Earth: natural history general
Hardback
Presents a survey of the rocks and structures of fault and shear zones. This book presents more than six hundred photographs... [more]
Stromatolites: Ancient, Beautiful, and Earth-Altering
Bob Leis, Bruce L. Stinchcomb
Rocks, minerals & fossils
Paperback
A colorful look at 3.5 billion years of stromatolites, peculiar structures produced by primitive life forms that lived over... [more]
Collectors' Guide to the Amphibole Group
Robert J. Lauf, PhD.
Rocks, minerals & fossils
Paperback
The amphibole group is extremely important, widespread, and beautiful, with a structure that can accommodate a bewildering... [more]
Volcano Discoveries
Tom Pfeiffer, Ingrid Smet
Mathematics & Sciences; Natural disasters; Rocks, minerals & fossils; The Earth: natural history general
Hardback
One of the most eye-catching guides to the world's volcanoes ever published, packed with stunning photography. Introductory... [more]
The Secrets of Sand: A Journey into the Amazing Microscopic World of Sand...
Gary Greenberg, Carol Kiely, Kate Clover
Photographs: collections; Mathematics & Sciences; Rocks, minerals & fossils
Hardback
Deep-focus microscope photography, x-ray images, and high-resolution scanning electron microscopy reveal the geological secrets... [more]
The Collector's Guide to Herkimer Diamonds
Michael R. Walter
Rocks, minerals & fossils
Paperback
This is the first published guide to Herkimer diamonds, striking quartz crystals, that includes all important aspects of interest... [more]
Dinosaurs from Head to Tail
Stacey Roderick
Rocks, minerals & fossils
Hardback
With playful illustrations and engaging, guessing game text, young paleontologists-to-be will want to revisit Dinosaurs from... [more]
Evolution of the Igneous Rocks: Fiftieth Anniversary Perspectives
Hatten Schuyler Yoder
Rocks, minerals & fossils
Paperback
The Evolution of the Igneous Rocks, by N. L. Bowen, appeared in 1928 and had a profound influence on later generations of... [more]
Mineral Treasures of the Ozarks
Bruce L. Stinchcomb
Rocks, minerals & fossils
Paperback
The Ozarks highland region of the Midwest, located in southern Missouri and northern Arkansas, contains beautiful mineral... [more]
Collector's Guide to the Zeolite Group
Robert J. Lauf, PhD.
Rocks, minerals & fossils
Paperback
Among rock-forming minerals, the zeolite group is large and widespread, and is enormously important to industry. Zeolites... [more]
Rocks and Minerals
Chris Pellant, Helen Pellant
Mathematics & Sciences; Rocks, minerals & fossils
Paperback
A geology expert explains how to tell rocks from minerals and then shares secrets of spotting sulfides, chromates, igneous... [more]
Collector's Guide to Crawfordsville Crinoids
William W. Morgan, PhD
Rocks, minerals & fossils
Paperback
Mississippian Age crinoids from Crawfordsville, Indiana, are known worldwide for their completeness, abundance, comparatively... [more]
Extinction and Evolution: What Fossils Reveal About the History of Life...
Niles Eldredge
Mathematics & Sciences; Rocks, minerals & fossils
Hardback
An illustrated account of the work and discoveries of Niles Etheridge, one of the world's most renowned paleontologists whose... [more]
National Geographic Pocket Guide to Rocks and Minerals of North America...
Sarah Garlick, Sarah Garlick
Rocks, minerals & fossils
Paperback
Filled with photographs, art and maps, this beginner's guide to rocks, minerals, fossil and geology is perfectly sized for... [more]
Rocks and Minerals: A Photographic Field Guide
Chris Pellant, Helen Pellant
Rocks, minerals & fossils
Paperback
Illustrated throughout with colour photographs, this title covers all classifications of rocks and minerals, with more than... [more]
British Fossils
Peter Doyle
Rocks, minerals & fossils
Paperback
A guide to fossils in the UK, plotting the main fossil groups around the country, and relating them to the different ages... [more]
The Natural History of Clay
Alfred B. Searle
Rocks, minerals & fossils
Paperback
The Natural History of Clay by Alfred B. Searle was first published in 1912 as part of the Cambridge Manuals of Science and... [more]
The Crato Fossil Beds of Brazil: Window into an Ancient World
David M. Martill, Gunter Bechly, Robert F. Loveridge
Geology & the lithosphere; Rocks, minerals & fossils
Paperback
This beautifully illustrated 2007 volume describes the flora and fauna of the Lower Cretaceous Crato Formation of Brazil,... [more]
Cambridge Library Collection...
A. C. Seward
Botany & plant sciences; Palaeontology; Rocks, minerals & fossils
Paperback
Aimed at non-specialists, this is an introduction, published in 1931, to the field of palaeobotany. Seward describes the basics... [more]
Mountain Magic
Van Greaves
Photographs: collections; Mountains; Rocks, minerals & fossils
Hardback
A personal selection of Van Greaves' photos of British mountains, representing the best of forty years of dedicated work.... [more]
The Fossil Detectives: Discovering Prehistoric Britain
Douglas Palmer, Hermione Cockburn
Rocks, minerals & fossils
Paperback
Fossils provide us with a tantalizing glimpse of Britain's prehistoric past and hold the key to unlocking the secrets of life's... [more]
