The Complete Guide to Rocks & Minerals

The Complete Guide to Rocks & Minerals shows you how to identify and collect the world's most fascinating specimens, featuring over 800 stunning photographs and artworks. Includes tips for amateur geologists on how to extract samples safely, clean and store specimens, and build their own collection. Provides step-by-tep instruction on simlpe home testing techniques, to gauge tone, hardness, cleavage, tenacity, transparency and other features. The book's comprehensive photographic directory will enable the reader to identify specimens, and describes their chemical composition and unique characteristics.