Record details

• ISBN: 0228103622
• ISBN: 9780228103622
• Physical Description: print
  445 pages : color illustrations, photographs ; 20 cm
• Publisher: Richmond Hill, Ontario : Firefly Books, 2022.

Content descriptions

General Note:

"700 minerals, gems and rocks ; Bonus: Meteorites"--Cover.

"Includes 600 illustrations ; 800 photos"--Cover.

"With 600 illustrations of crystal shapes"--Back cover.

Translation of: Der Kosmos Mineralienführer. Stuttgart : Kosmos, 2019.

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (page 437) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

What stone is that? -- The properties of minerals -- The origin and occurence of minerals -- The classifications of rocks -- Identifying minerals, rocks and gemstones -- What are meteorites? -- Rock profiles -- Collecting minerals and rocks -- Organizing a mineral collection.

Language Note:

Text in English, translated from the German.

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Subject:

Mineralogy Encyclopedias

Minerals Encyclopedias

Minerals Identification

Petrology Encyclopedias

Rocks Encyclopedias

Rocks Identification

Genre:

Encyclopedias.

Field guides.

Informational works.