Field Book of Common Rocks and Minerals

by Frederic Brewster Loomis

EN·~7 hours·11 chapters

Chapters

11 total

PREFACE

4:50

LIST OF PLATES (AT END OF BOOK)

0:02

FIELD BOOK OF COMMON ROCKS AND MINERALS

0:02

CHAPTER I AN INTRODUCTION - Why

9:37

CHAPTER II ON THE FORMS AND PROPERTIES OF MINERALS - Rocks

22:00

CHAPTER III THE MINERALS - KEY TO THE MINERALS, BASED ON HARDNESS, COLOR, ETC.

3:41:42

CHAPTER IV THE ROCKS

1:58:45

CHAPTER V MISCELLANEOUS ROCKS

33:53

BIBLIOGRAPHY - MINERALOGY

3:09

INDEX

19:55

Description

Illustrated with photographs by W. E. Corbin and drawings by the author.

Details

Full title

Field Book of Common Rocks and Minerals For identifying the Rocks and Minerals of the United States and interpreting their Origins and Meanings

Language

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

2017-08-18

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Minerals -- United States Rocks -- United States

About the author

Frederic Brewster Loomis

1873–1937

A lifelong Amherst scholar, he spent decades digging into North American fossil beds and helping build one of the college’s most enduring natural history collections. His work centered on vertebrate paleontology, and many of the fossils he collected are still displayed today.

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