A Field Guide to Rocks and MineralsExplains how to start and organize a rock collection; provides detailed descriptions of hundreds of minerals with information on geographic distribution, physical properties, chemical composition, and crystalline structures; and includes 385 color photographs. |
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Your Mineral Collection | 3 |
Rocks and Minerals and Where To Find Them | 12 |
Special Features of Sedimentary Rocks | 22 |
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abundant altered arsenic associated azurite barite basal bead bipyramidal blowpipe blue borax brittle brown calcite calcium carbonate cavities cerussite chalcopyrite charcoal cleavage cleavage perfect cobalt color Colorado colorless common commonly Composition conchoidal copper County crusts Crystal description crystals are found cubic deposits dissolve Distinguishing characteristics embedded Environment feldspar fibrous flame fluorescent fluorite fracture conchoidal fracture uneven Fuses easily fusibility grains granular gravity green hardness Hexagonal hydrochloric acid Hydrous igneous inches insoluble Interesting facts iron limestone limonite localities luster luster glassy luster metallic m m m magnetic manganese masses massive metamorphic Mexico mica mineral Monoclinic Monoclinic prismatic nitric acid Occurrence Orthorhombic oxide pegmatites phosphate Physical properties pinacoid prisms quartz rare Rhombic bipyramidal rhombohedral rocks secondary mineral sedimentary silicate silver SiO2 sodium soluble solution sometimes specimens sphalerite streak subconchoidal sulphate sulphide sulphur surface symmetry tabular Tests thin transparent to translucent twinned uraninite uranium usually variscite veins weathered yellow zeolites