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Field book of common rocks and minerals : for identifying the rocks and minerals of the United States and interpreting their origins and meanings
Chapters
11 totalPREFACE
LIST OF PLATES (AT END OF BOOK)
FIELD BOOK OF COMMON ROCKS AND MINERALS
CHAPTER I AN INTRODUCTION - Why
CHAPTER II ON THE FORMS AND PROPERTIES OF MINERALS - Rocks
CHAPTER III THE MINERALS - KEY TO THE MINERALS, BASED ON HARDNESS, COLOR, ETC.
CHAPTER IV THE ROCKS
CHAPTER V MISCELLANEOUS ROCKS
BIBLIOGRAPHY - MINERALOGY
INDEX
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Illustrated with photographs by W. E. Corbin and drawings by the author.
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Field book of common rocks and minerals : for identifying the rocks and minerals of the United States and interpreting their origins and meanings For identifying the Rocks and Minerals of the United States and interpreting their Origins and Meanings
Language
en
Duration
~7 hours (416K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Stephen Hutcheson, Dave Morgan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
Release date
Aug 18, 2017
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
About the author
Frederic Brewster Loomis
1873–1937
A pioneering American paleontologist, he spent his career at Amherst College uncovering and studying ancient vertebrate life. His fieldwork helped build collections that are still central to Amherst’s natural history museum.
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